George SandBy: Ysabelle Lacamp Series: They Said No The only YA book to tell the story of George Sand and the courageous fight for womens 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 wasnt 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 mans name, and loving who and