Napoleon I Emperor of France

The plot, which has many twists and complications, is quasi-historical since it centres around Napoleon just before he becomes Emperor. The other central character is a royalist, the marquis de Tallemont, who runs the restaurant...

Here, FT argues that the unavailability of divorce causes both social evil and personal unhappiness. She links the right to divorce to the God-given right to freedom exemplified and promoted by the French Revolution, and...

A note in Campaspe confesses that the subject of the title-poem is over-ambitious. It is an allegory in which Alexander the Great (representing Glory) resigns Campaspe (representing Beauty) to Apelles the sculptor (Genius). This piece...

Her first diary entry reads in full: Set out from Charles Street at four o'clock; slept at the Blue Posts at Witham. This earliest journal, covering MB 's first visit abroad, savours...

Here MS found the mixture that would characterise all her travel writing: vivid first-hand narrative and evocation, and reliable well-set-out information about practical matters like mileages and information about the state of roads and inns...

AH left four manuscript volumes of poetry, three now at the Royal College of Surgeons and one at Aberdeen University .The works that she left unprinted were chiefly songs (some of them pastoral)...

HMW published A Narrative of the Events which have taken place in France, from the landing of Napoleon Bonaparte , on the 1st of March, 1815, till the Restoration of Louis XVIII.

Emma, Baroness Orczy , published another historical novel, A Spy of Napoleon, one of those which (along with The Uncrowned King and No Greater Love) she herself ranked particularly highly.

The year after JC 's death there appeared his Suspense, an unfinished historical novel set during the Napoleon ic wars.

CO 's work on a series of leaders from the time of the Napoleonic wars resulted in an invitation to lecture to the Royal Society of Literature about reading the writings of Nelson , Collingwood

GS was set to publish De l'Allemagne (Germany) in Paris when Napoleon suppressed it because of its sympathy with nascent nationalist feeling in Germany; it waited three years for publication.

AD 's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they...

CD edited and published The Nelson Touch, a selection of letters from a national hero; she noted parallels between the military state of Britain confronting Napoleon and confronting Hitler .

Much of SACD 's short fiction deals with adventure and travel. He wrote seventeen short stories about a French brigadier in Napoleon 's army, Etienne Gerard, which took over from the Sherlock Holmes sequence in...

NL published another work of historical fiction, A Rose for Virtue: The Very Private Life of Hortense , Stepdaughter of Napoleon I , Mother of Napoleon III.