Victor Hugo, Devoted Grandfather

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Victor Hugo with his beloved grandchildren.

Snippets 90. John Swinton was a popular journalist, who was chief editor of the New York Times during the 1860s. In 1883 he launched John Swinton’s Paper, an influential publication campaigning for the rights of workers in America. His views may have been influenced in some measure by a visit to Britain three years earlier, during which he witnessed the worst examples of poverty he had ever seen on the streets of London, Birm...