Marva is delighted to continue her exploration of Victor Hugo’s ideas around Les Misérables with a talk on the island of Guernsey, his exile home for fifteen years. Invited to the 2021 Victor Hugo in Guernsey Weekend (in late June), Marva has 
chosen to talk about how Hugo, his wife, and servants provided weekly healthy meals to Guernsey children whose families couldn’t afford them.
The first such lunch took place on March 10, 1862, about a month before the first volume of Hugo’s epic was being published throughout Europe. With her talk, “Ideas in Action: Hugo’s Weekly Meals for Poor Children,” Marva will delve into these beneficent actions, ones that figure in “Love in Action,” Chapter 3 in her book To Love Is to Act.
Thanks to the Victor Hugo in Guernsey Society for so thoughtfully and consistently highlighting Hugo’s ideas, work, and intriguing life!