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Victor Hugo didn't much care for Adèle because he was never sure she was his daughter. Even so, he made her join the rest of his family as they shared his exile on the island of Jersey. Adèle was virtually imprisoned. The lack of outlets for her artistic gifts cramped her mind, and daily seances loosened her grip on reality. No wonder she fell in love with a feckless English soldier, Albert Andrew Pinson. His ardour for everything about her except her money cooled rapidly, but her passion for him burned white hot. Adèle dogged Pinson's footsteps, first to Halifax and then to Barbados, sometimes in a state of dementia. At last, a former slave rescued her from a Bridgetown street and took her home to France. Victor committed Adèle to an asylum, and there she stayed for the rest of her life, even though she was at times no less lucid than he.
- Sales Rank: #2618554 in Books
- Published on: 1993
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.00" w x 6.00" l, .80 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 194 pages
Review
Love ItBy H. Watson on May 15, 2007Format: PaperbackAnyone who is fascinated with this woman will love this book, as there is not much out there about her!
A great buy, well worth the money, it explains a lot that happened in the movie too.
Review of Leslie Smith Dow's other work: "As a young child I was enthralled with the popular musical, The King and I. The story had all the makings of a perfect fairy tale, with Anna captivating the heart of the King of Siam. Now, with a new film version of The King and I about to be released I wanted to find out more about the real woman behind the well known legend.
Through extensive research and detective work, author Leslie Smith Dow has successfully peeled back the layers of myth to reveal a very different, but equally extraordinary Anna. Through her research she debunks some of the details of Anna's early life revealing a very unromantic childhood of poverty and squalor. This book took me right into the heart of this extraordinary woman as she struggled to survive as a young widow with two small children. Her life as a Governess at the Saimese Court was fascinating, but equally impressive was the life she led after leaving Siam. I was very interested to read of her many accomplishments in Canada after moving to Halifax Nova Scotia with her daughter and son-in-law. She worked very hard to make her mark on both Halifax and Montreal leaving a lasting legacy of work that remains to this day.
Leslie Smith Dow has done a remarkable job of giving us a true portrait of Anna Leonowens and I highly recommend this book."
From the Back Cover
Ottawa writer Leslie Smith Dow bases Adèle Hugo's sad yet exciting life story on Adèle's own diaries, the Hugos' voluminous correspondence, and recollections written by friends of this strange family. Adèle Hugo: La Misérable, her second biography, follows the highly acclaimed Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond the King and I. For more historical biography, try out The Diary of Death: 1819
About the Author
Leslie Smith Dow is the award-winning author of several books, a poet, short story and novel writer, a former newspaper reporter and freelance journalist. An e-edition of her award-winning book, Adele Hugo: La Miserable, with a new Afterword, is now available from Goose Lane Editions. She was selected as the Canadian Authors' Association Air Canada Award winner for Most Promising Canadian Writer Under Age 30. She has been listed as a finalist for the Trillium Writing Award, as well as other non-fiction writing awards offered by the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality and the Ottawa Citizen. She was a winner of the Dartmouth Literary Award (non-fiction), and a recipient of grants from the Canada Council, City of Ottawa and Regional Municipality of Ottawa. Leslie has been a juror on the City of Ottawa and Regional Municipality Arts Awards Committees and is currently a member of the selection committee of Bywords.ca on-line poetry journal. She has contributed to numerous Canadian newspapers, magazines and journals as well as national and international publications. She lives in Ontario, Canada, where she keeps bees beside the St. Lawrence River.
Most helpful customer reviews
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Love It
By H. Watson
Anyone who is fascinated with this woman will love this book, as there is not much out there about her!
A great buy, well worth the money, it explains a lot that happened in the movie too.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Very Good
By tess of the dubervilles
I had watched the movie 'The Story of Adele H and I wanted to read about her.. This book was wonderful and very sad.. Poor Adele I think she may have had Borderline Personality disorder.. Not that I'm a shrink or anything :-)
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Good detail, too much personal politics
By Mark Kittell
My assessment of this book, one of the few providing a full examination of the subject, is an "average"--meaning that for its detail it is worthy of five stars, but the relative lack of objectivity by the author calls its credibility into question. Adele is of course a "victim" of the "patriarchy," although even Dow is forced to admit that her actions were in large part influenced by neo-feminist George Sand, and not for particularly positive results. We are told Adele supposedly had potential to be a great writer, even more so than her father, although this is just a "conjecture" on Dow's part, because much of Adele's writing was done in almost indecipherable code that only she could fully comprehend (and also could have been evidence of her growing madness). The credibility of the author is particularly questionable in regard to Adele's father, Victor Hugo--who even more than Albert Pinson is the "villain" of the story. Not only does Dow ignore his progressive politics which included support for universal suffrage, but attempts to degrade his literary accomplishments at every opportunity (there is no mention, for example, of the universally-acclaimed The Hunchback of Notre Dame or Les Miserables; to do so would expose her opinions to more obvious ridicule).
Victor Hugo in this narrative is nothing more than a womanizer, a domestic tyrant and a over-rated poet and author of whom there is no logical explanation for his fame. As for Pinson, it has to be admitted that for all his personal failings, one could not truly blame him for his attitude toward Adele. After all, it was she who casually turned down his marriage proposal for the sake of her feminist theories, and her subsequent pursuit of him seemed to him evidence of a very bizarre and unstable personality (which was, in fact, the case). Sure, he took money from her like she used her father like a bank, but whose fault was that?
Still, the book manages to give the impression that a great deal of effort went to uncovering as much detail as possible into the life of Adele Hugo, and in fact there is no denying that sometimes fact can be more fascinating than fiction. Even Dow cannot entirely white-wash the sad reality of her life, since simply in its telling one cannot escape the sense of a life terribly misguided by emotional an mental instability.
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