Napoleon I, Emperor of France

The title-page quotes Shakespeare , who is then cited in the preface to justify the genre of historical fiction. HRM mentions her consultations of records and documents, and expresses her thanks to the gentlemen of...

EN set her Carnival in Martinique, about a young servant girl struggling with class and gender limitations, in the French-speaking part of Martinique. Jeannette, a half-caste servant girl, leaves her chores to join...

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

CO 's one volume of straight history for adults was Britain Against Napoleon, a study—written at a moment when British military power stood alone against most of Europe—about another somewhat similar moment in the past.

During the brief interval of peace AO travelled to Paris with her husband , hoping to see Napoleon , whom she then admired.

In Paris the Opies did some intensive looking at pictures. (Napoleon 's habit of looting the art treasures of countries he conquered had much increased the stores on view.)

AP published a Narrative of Three Years' Residence in France . . . including some Authentic Particulars respecting the Early Life of the French Emperor . . ..

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography argues that the book AP published about her years in France was an explicit attempt to influence the British government towards recognising Napoleon as a legitimate ruler and resuming...

This is part travel book and part politically sympathetic account of post-Revolutionary France: even a defence of Napoleon 's record as ruler, with an eye to history, against the prejudice which AP understood to...

The novel is set in Europe during the Napoleon ic era, only a few years in the past. Lingering fears of Napoleonic invasion made its subject highly topical for Porter's English readers. The brothers are...

JP 's first purpose included drawing a distinction between a brave patriot and a military plunderer. Revising for the tenth edition, 1819, she was struck by the continuing timeliness of this purpose: by the...

JP 's use of historical figures and her descriptions of the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 made many readers suppose that the first volume especially was history, not fiction. A friend of the family felt sure...

Again her work was extremely popular. The French translation was banned by Napoleon because of its portrayal of nationalist resistance to conquest.Mary Russell Mitford , who thought very highly of Porter, found Wallace in...

Anne Thackeray witnessed as a small child the second funeral of Napoleon in Paris. Her memories of this event were published in Chapters from Some Memoirs, 1894.

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.