FRANCES WILSON
In Pursuit of Love: The Search for Victor Hugo’s Daughter
By Mark Bostridge
Bloomsbury £20
Mark Bostridge first came across Adèle, the second daughter of Victor Hugo, when he saw François Truffaut’s L’Histoire d’Adèle H in 1975.
The film, starring Isabelle Adjani, tells the story of Adèle Hugo’s unrequited love for an English lieutenant called Albert Andrew Pinson, played by Bruce Robinson, who later wrote Withnail and I.
Travelling under an assumed