Napoleon I, Emperor of France

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

Benjamin Constant , formerly the lover of GS , represented her in his novel Adolphe as a woman whose mind was the most wide-ranging of any woman ever, and perhaps of any man, and...

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...

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...

Publishers Weekly praised, as well as the mingling of irony and pathos in the novel's tone, its effortless presentation of abstruse research into daily life in Enlightenment-era Saxony, German reactions to the French Revolution...

The book attracted attacks from Catholics and from specialists with more knowledge than GS . One politician criticised her for attempting such a large topic, allegedly outside the realm of a woman's proper sphere. It...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...