When Victor Hugo died in 1885, the world was shocked to discover that he had a lone survivor: his daughter Ad̈le, incarcerated in an asylum for insane gentlewomen. Ad̈le Hugo was an accomplished, intelligent, and ambitious young woman whose potential shrank with every year she spent under her tyrannical father's roof. At thirty-three, she fell desperately in love with an English soldier who quickly lost interest in everything about her except her money. Her obsession with him proved her undoing. In Ad̈le Hugo: La Misřable, Leslie Smith Dow recounts Ad̈le's nine-year pursuit of her unwilling lover from Guernsey to Halifax to Barbados, her return to her father's sphere by a former slave, and the progressive schizophrenia that finally incapacitated her. Smith Dow bases Ad̈le's stranger-than-fiction history on her bizarre diaries, her family's letters, and the testimony of eyewitnesses. In this new ebook-only edition, Leslie Smith Dow updates the saga of Ad̈le Hugo with the fascinating mystery of a painting attributed to the Impressionist master ⁹douard Manet. This painting came to light in an online auction around 2004. After the purchaser contacted Smith Dow for her opinion, the author and the painting's new owner set out to determine whether the subject of the painting was Ad̈le Hugo, and whether it was indeed painted by Manet. Smith Dow's new afterword recounts their sleuthing in dramatic style

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