Marie d`Agoult: The Rebel Countess

This engrossing biography provides a vivid account of the talented and resolutely independent Marie d'Agoult (18051876). Known widely for abandoning her French nobleman husband to elope with pianist and composer Franz Liszt, d'Agoult later won fame as a writer under the pen name Daniel Stern. Her writings earned her a reputation as journalist and historian, and her salon attracted noted artists, reformers, and freethinkers of the time.