Leslie Smith Dow

I am the author of print and e-books including the award-winning historical biographies Adele Hugo: La Miserable and Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond the King and I. I am a veteran journalist and freelance writer, and enjoy travel and reading improbable-but-true stories.

Read Elissa Barnard’s review of the re-issued e-edition of Adele Hugo in www.localxpress.ca at https://www.localxpress.ca/local-arts....

Goose Lane Editions have recently published an e-edition of my award-winning book, Adele Hugo: La Miserable, with a new Afterword detailing a fascinating attempt to authenticate a painting which may be of Adele, and just may have been painted by legendary French painter Edouard Manet. Adele Hugo was the daughter of French writer Victor Hugo, a

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