Napoleon I Emperor of France

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.

In prose the opening tale, Julia de Clifford, presents a well-meaning but thoughtless and impulsive heroine who progresses from dressing up as a ghost to scare the servants, to plunging her lover into despair...

CM writes in her unpublished autobiography about the eleven siblings of her father, Francis Julian Mackworth . His family were Welsh coal-owners of the more liberal persuasion. He was killed while serving as an...

Poems in this volume include songs, love-verses (both autobiographical and written for fictional situations), expressions of orthodox political sentiment (like an anti-Napoleonic desire to see the French monarchy restored), and ballads (probably her least...

Mitford put together landscape sketches (an agricultural landscape of fields, hedgerows, stiles, and village street), descriptions of labour in the fields, customs and festivals (May Day or a cricket match), the animals, the village shop...

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 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.

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

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...

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...