Porter, Jane. Thaddeus of Warsaw. T. N. Longman and O. Rees.
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Napoleon I, Emperor of France
Standard Name: Napoleon I,, Emperor of France
Used Form: Napoleon Bonaparte
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Jane Porter | JP
's first purpose included drawing a distinction between a brave patriot and a military plunderer. |
| Literary responses | Jane Porter | 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... |
| Reception | Jane Porter | Again her work was extremely popular. The French translation was banned by Napoleon
because of its portrayal of nationalist resistance to conquest. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Textual Production | Anne Plumptre | AP
published a Narrative of Three Years' Residence in France . . . including some Authentic Particulars respecting the Early Life of the French Emperor
. . .. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 3d ser. 19 (1810): 448 |
| politics | Anne Plumptre | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Plumptre | This is part travel book and part politically sympathetic account of post-Revolutionary France: even a defence of Napoleon
's record as ruler, with an eye to history, against the prejudice which AP
understood to... |
| Travel | Amelia Opie | During the brief interval of peace AO
travelled to Paris with her husband
, hoping to see Napoleon
, whom she then admired. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix. xxxviii Macgregor, Margaret Eliot. Amelia Alderson Opie: Worldling and Friend. Banta, http://PR 5115 O3Z7 M2. 37-8 |
| Leisure and Society | Amelia Opie | In Paris the Opies did some intensive looking at pictures. (Napoleon
's habit of looting the art treasures of countries he conquered had much increased the stores on view.) Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under John Opie |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Carola Oman | 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. Oman, Carola. Britain Against Napoleon. Faber and Faber. prelims “Obituary: Miss Carola Oman”. Times, p. 16. 16 |
| Textual Production | Carola Oman | CO
's work on a series of leaders from the time of the Napoleonic wars resulted in an invitation to lecture to the Royal Society of Literature
about reading the writings of Nelson
, Collingwood |
| Textual Features | Elma Napier | 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... |
| Textual Features | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
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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