My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo 1833-1882 (Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation) - Softcover

9780791465721: My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo 1833-1882 (Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation)

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ISBN 10: 0791465721 ISBN 13: 9780791465721

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2006

Selected letters from Juliette Drouet to her lover, Victor Hugo, offering insights into nineteenth-century French culture as well as an insider's look at the character, behavior, working habits, and day-to-day life of France's most monumental man of letters.

My Beloved Toto, a collection of letters written by Juliette Drouet to her lover, Victor Hugo, tells the story of a life and of the great love affair that shaped it. From 1833 until her death half a century later, Drouet wrote to Hugo twice daily on average, resulting in thousands of letters. The 186 translated here-most appearing in English for the first time-offer insights into nineteenth-century French culture as well as an insider's look at the character, behavior, working habits, and day-to-day life of France's most monumental man of letters.

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About the Author

Victoria Tietze Larson is Professor of Classics and General Humanities at Montclair State University and the translator of My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt, also published by SUNY Press.

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