" I hear that George Sand is seldom at Paris now. She has devoted herself to play-writing, and employs a houseful of men, her son’s friends and her own, in acting privately with her what she writes — trying it on a home stage before she tries it at Paris. Her son is a very ordinary young man of three-and-twenty, but she is fond of him.... "

― Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning