Adele Hugo: La Miserable - Softcover

Dow, Leslie Smith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0864921683 ISBN 13: 9780864921680

Publisher: Goose Lane Editions, 1994

Synopsis

The bizarre story of Adele Hugo and her 18-year pursuit of an English soldier from Guernsey to Halifax to Barbados.

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From the Author:

Adele Hugo never escaped the shadow of her father, Victor.
Adele Hugo's life should have been one of luxury and leisure; instead, she spiralled downward from beautiful and adored child to decrepit, forgotten wretch, first in Halifax, Nova Scotia, then in Barbados. Mentally ill, she wandered the streets until she was finally brought back to Paris, not by her father, but by a former slave who took pity on her. "La Miserable" means "the wretch," and wretched she was. Jilted by her lover, ignored by her parents in their grief at the death of their better-loved daughter, Leopoldine, and thwarted in her ambitions to write and compose, Adele succumbed to the schizophrenia which had plagued other family members, including her father!

About this edition

• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0864921683
• ISBN 13: 9780864921680
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194