Napoleon I Emperor of France

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.

She apologises to her readers in a foreword (written at Paris) for presenting the life-story of a liar, thief and forger, and for allowing him, too, to tell it himself. This man, Hector Ratichon, served...

With the resignation of Pitt in February 1801, and the succession of Henry Addington as Prime Minister, Georgiana found that she was once again a centre of political influence, confided in and consulted by Whigs...

The virtues of this powerful Irish novel were not fully appreciated in England. Mary Russell Mitford thought that Morgan would be all right without the politics: she would be worth reading and praising if only...

It is set in Dublin and Connemara during the 1790s, the time of the author's own youth, with closing scenes in Paris. The large cast of characters includes ancient Catholic landowning families of the...

This fragment depicts a seaside resort, often identified as Brighton, under development after Napoleon 's first defeat had freed the south coast from the threat of invasion, but before the war returned with his...

BB was a striking and accomplished visual artist, though she tended to speak slightingly of her own work. Early in her marriage to Austin Davies she exhibited her work alongside his. She began a...

During the next few years ALB drafted several poems which she left unpublished: poems on public affairs instead of, like most of her earlier unpublished verse, on private topics. News of Napoleon 's retreat from...

At this date, though the war against France was, from a British point of view, going well, Britain was suffering terribly from its prosecution. Napoleon had not yet swung the balance against himself by invading...

As was standard for such tours they established contact to varying degrees with eminent people: they were presented to the Pope at Rome and to Queen Maria Carolina at Naples. (In the same manner, on...

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...

Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large, respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became...

FB bade farewell to her husband , as he left to ride out with the French king 's army against Napoleon , who was almost at the gates of Paris.

In her youth Jane Welsh composed verse translations from texts by Goethe and Pierre Cardenal , and of Chateaubriand 's Atala. She also wrote a number of original short poems; two of those that...

The novel tells the story of its female narrator's life during the evangelical revival in the Napoleonic era, [and] proposes religion as the antidote for revolution. Bride Danescombe opens her narrative of her life with...