shoutout to Victor Hugo for publishing Les Misérables in 1862 and portraying Fantine as a sympathetic single mom who truly loved her child, and for placing the blame for her situation on the man who used and left her, not the woman who had premarital sex.
#AND blaming the clients and the system and not the prostitutes#Hugo can be really frustrating#but he got some things so right (via pilferingapples)