Regarded as one of Sand's best novels, Lelia is an important
document in the evolution of women's consciousness. Published in
1833, when Sand was 29, it stunned Victorians by advocating the
same standard of morality for men and women and by suggesting that
both the prostitute and the married woman were slaves to male
desire. Sand also questioned monogamy, fidelity, and monastic
celibacy. She later made an unsuccessful attempt to revise the book
and to expunge its despair and skepticism.
Although Sand wrote copiously, until recently only a handful of
her books were available in English. This first English translation
of Lelia is an excellent rendering, capturing the raptures, the
mysticism, and the nineteenth-century flavor ot its eternally
fascinating subject."
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