Napoleon I, Emperor of France

The father of Emma Caroline Michell (later ECM) settled his family at Rosewyn in Cornwall (near the village of Michell and not far from Truro) at the onset of Napoleon 's invasion of Portugal.

A masquerade ball was held at Burlington House, Piccadilly, to celebrate the abdication of Napoleon and his confinement on the island of Elba: this was HW 's last grand public appearance.

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.

Crabb Robinson reported that HMW made free with criticisms in private of Napoleon (in whom, in fact, she had become quite disillusioned by later 1801). On 17 November that year she published her Ode to...

Published in two volumes, by G. G. and J. Robinson , this opens with further discussion of Switzerland, after a preface written with maturity and confidence in her own ability to deflect hostile criticism...

A police report suggested to Napoleon that this book might arouse royalist sympathies. In July 1803 it was suppressed and copies confiscated (though they were restored at the end of August), while Napoleon used it...

Napoleon himself read this book and was incensed. He accused HMW of falsehood through his ghostwritten, posthumous Napoleon in Exile, 1822.

JW uses heroic couplets for formal poems like To the Island of Sicily (on the retreat of the king and queen of the Two Sicilies before the French Army of Italy, commanded by Napoleon ...

After the pasted-in pages and a section devoted to Tasso , the volume moves to a poem modelled on the tabular lists of good and evil in his life that are kept by Defoe 's...

Here they met the Italian romantic poet Ugo Foscolo , who had come to France to join Napoleon 's army and had been put in charge of the detained Britons.

LMW told her nephew, as to Popoli, I had a set for your acceptance.Nodier published a sequel, Auguste et Jules de Popoli, in 1812.Google books offers an edition of the...

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...

Having married at Paris, MT and her second husband were kept in France by the resumption of the Napoleonic wars. It proved impossible to return to Britain till 1807. Her husband was forbidden to leave...

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...

An obituary of EST published first in the Monthly Magazine and then, with some variations, in the Gentleman's Magazine, said that she contributed to nearly every respectable periodical of her age, and worked on...