Napoleon I, Emperor of France

AD 's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they...

CD edited and published The Nelson Touch, a selection of letters from a national hero; she noted parallels between the military state of Britain confronting Napoleon and confronting Hitler .

LMW told her nephew, as to Popoli, I had a set for your acceptance.Nodier published a sequel, Auguste et Jules de Popoli, in 1812.Google books offers an edition of the...

Much of SACD 's short fiction deals with adventure and travel. He wrote seventeen short stories about a French brigadier in Napoleon 's army, Etienne Gerard, which took over from the Sherlock Holmes sequence in...

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

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During the next few years ALB drafted several poems which she left unpublished: poems on public affairs instead of, like most of her earlier unpublished verse, on private topics.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

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...

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)...

Here MS found the mixture that would characterise all her travel writing: vivid first-hand narrative and evocation, and reliable well-set-out information about practical matters like mileages and information about the state of roads and inns...

As the title implies, this was written on the model of Anna Letitia Barbauld 's Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, though it also rebukes what AG would have seen as Barbauld's defeatism and failure of...

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...

The novel tells the story of its female narrator's life during the evangelical revival in the Napoleonic era, [and] proposes religion as the antidote for revolution. Bride Danescombe opens her narrative of her life with...