The New International Encyclopædia/Indiana (romance)

INDIANA. (1) A romance by George Sand (1832), and the name of the heroine, a young Creole, ignorant of the world and married to a husband much older than herself. Her love is gained by Raymon, a man of leisure, who, when she yields to his ascendency, refuses to compromise himself and repulses her offer. After Raymon's marriage and the death of her hus band, she becomes the wife of an English lover The novel was written after the author had separated from her husband and voices her indignation at the results of ill-assorted marriages, Indiana, which was George Sands first novel, had a great success from the social question in- volved and the intense individuality which the author put into her work. (2) A character in Steele's comedy, The Conscious Lovers.