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Leslie Smith Dow

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.