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, and she ran away after a soldier, spending many years in Halifax, Nova Scotia and then Barbados. She went mad and was finally brought back to Paris where she remained in an institution for the rest of her life.