George Sand

The only YA book to tell the story of George Sand and the courageous fight for women s rights in the 19th century.

George Sand was the most popular novelist of the mid-19th century, and the pen name of Amandine Aurore Dupin. Sand wasn t looking for scandal or subterfuge by using a pseudonym, but for freedom to live and to write, which she found by dressing as a man, writing under a man s name, and loving who and how she chose. Her actions were an affront to the prejudices of the 19th cen ...