Napoleon I, Emperor of France

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.

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.

Emma, Baroness Orczy , published another historical novel, A Spy of Napoleon, one of those which (along with The Uncrowned King and No Greater Love) she herself ranked particularly highly.

During the next few years ALB drafted several poems which she left unpublished: poems on public affairs instead of, like most of her earlier unpublished verse, on private topics. News of Napoleon 's retreat from...

She apologises to her readers in a foreword (written at Paris) for presenting the life-story of a liar, thief and forger, and for allowing him, too, to tell it himself. This man, Hector Ratichon, served...

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...

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...

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 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 set in Dublin and Connemara during the 1790s, the time of the author's own youth, with closing scenes in Paris. The large cast of characters includes ancient Catholic landowning families of the...

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 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...

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.

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...