Hill, Isabel et al. “Translator’s Preface; Madame de Staël”. Corinne; or, Italy, translated by. Isabel Hill and L. E. L., A. L. Burt, p. iii - iv; v-xxi.
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Napoleon I, Emperor of France
Standard Name: Napoleon I,, Emperor of France
Used Form: Napoleon Bonaparte
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Heyrick | 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... |
| Textual Features | Isabel Hill | 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 |
| Literary Setting | Naomi Jacob | 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... |
| Literary Setting | Ann Jellicoe | 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... |
| Literary Setting | F. Tennyson Jesse | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Pauline Johnson | 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... |
| Publishing | Ellis Cornelia Knight | 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 |
| politics | Harriet Lee | 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. Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses. 2: 537 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Isabella Lickbarrow | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | J. S. Anna Liddiard | 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)... |
| Textual Production | Norah Lofts | 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. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 80 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Loudon | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Cecily Mackworth | CM
writes in her unpublished autobiography about the eleven siblings of her father, Francis Julian Mackworth
. Mackworth, Cecily. Out of the Black Mountains. 5 Bowker, Gordon. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. The Independent. |
| Textual Features | Christian Milne | 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... |
| Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | 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... |
Timeline
3 April 1817: Mary Baker launched her brief career as Princess...
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3 April 1817
Mary Baker
launched her brief career as Princess Caraboo, when an Overseer of the Poor at Almondesbury in Gloucestershire reported her presence to a local magistrate.
5 May 1821: Napoleon died in confinement on the island...
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5 May 1821
Napoleon
died in confinement on the island of St Helena.
7 September 1822: Brazil was declared independent from Portugal...
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7 September 1822
Brazil was declared independent from Portugal by its former Portuguese regent, who constituted himself Emperor Pedro I of Brazil
.
1833: The Arc de Triomphe in Paris was completed,...
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1833
The Arc de Triomphe in Paris was completed, and Napoleon
's statue was restored to the top of the column in the Place Vendôme.
22 June 1941: Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union (named...
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22 June 1941
Hitler
's invasion of the Soviet Union (named Operation Barbarossa, and in contravention of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 23 August 1939) began with a surprise attack at dawn which destroyed a thousand Soviet planes...
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