"Nanon" by George Sand: Master of Cliffhangers

She was avant-garde. George Sand was one of the first women authors to be able to make a living from her publications. She was one of the first to feature female first-person narrators in her novels. And she was one of the first female writers to wear men's clothing and smoke a pipe and cigar. Even more often than her more than 60 novels, people still talk about her spectacular love affairs, including those with the writers Jules Sandeau and Alfred de Musset. She had a worthwhile correspondence with Gustave Flaubert . She spent several months with Frédéric Chopin and wrote her most famous book to date, A Winter in Majorca, about it. But she was much more than the woman at the side of famous men.