Napoleon I, Emperor of France

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...

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.

The first poem in the volume, The Wreath of Fame, comments on her own daring in aiming for this wreath. Her other topics are the rage of Napoleon (the Man of Slaughter)...

Several poems address national political issues, and most of those in this volume express a hatred of war, usually from the point of view of bereaved women. Written at the commencement of the year 1813...

HL remarked to Hester Lynch Piozzi in December 1798 (as Napoleon was triumphing in Egypt) that observing the politics of her day had turned her from a little Democrate to a great Democrate.

In addition to novels, ECK also wrote poetry. An eight-page pamphlet of her verse was printed by Bondoni in Parma in 1793, presenting her Lines Address'd To Victory in Consequence of the Success of Lord Cornwallis

PJ 's father was George Henry Martin Johnson , Onwanonsyshon, a Mohawk chief. He was at one time an interpreter for the Anglican church. He had a life-long interest in Napoleon and decided to name...

The heroine of this novel operates in male disguise in the exotic world of sea-rovers. The action involves the bloody rebellion of 1802 on San Domingo (now Haiti) when Napoleon sent military force in an...

This lively play deals with smuggling, farming, and carpet-making (an important local industry) in South Devon during the Napoleon ic wars. AJ enlisted the aid of the Exeter Folk Arts Workshop to help weave traditional...

This novel encompasses three generations. Abraham Gollantz enters the story in Paris in the 1790s, having travelled from Rotterdam to learn the business of art dealing from Fernando Meldola, his father's oldest friend, an Italian...

The translation contains an uncredited twenty-page biography (presumably written by Hill) which describes Germaine de Staël as the most distinguished authoress of her time but speculates that without Napoleon 's persecution her later reputation...

The message is anti-war. EH rounds on Britain for supporting the ally of the Pope (i.e. Napoleon , who had invited the Pope to preside at his coronation as emperor the previous year). She opens...

It is hard to gauge the degree of Beckford's hostility towards his sister years after he published these novels. On 4 May 1817 he wrote with studied restraint that he did not think her insincere....

Vincent Castleton is mesmerized by the family, called the Sioux. (The Sioux is the Benoir name for the Benoirs.) Besides, he is besottedly in love with Marguerite and feels a strong emotional...

EH was fifteen when her mind was awakened to judge for itself, on hearing someone praise Napoleon , whom she had been taught to think of as a monster. She began following his career...