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Travel | Germaine de Staël | GS
left Coppet, eluding Napoleon
's spies, and travelled to St Petersburg through countries not yet under his sway (Austria, Bohemia, and Poland); she then visited Stockholm. Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 31-2 |
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 |
Travel | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | She later lived in several places in Germany, before returning to France during the reign of Napoleon
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Travel | Frances Burney | |
Travel | Elizabeth Grant | Ports of call on the voyage included Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the island of St Helena, where Elizabeth Smith visited Napoleon
's tomb. Corely, Jim. “History Articles. Elizabeth Smith—from Bombay to Baltiboys”. Blessington.info. |
Travel | Anne Damer | In the first winter of her widowhood AD
went abroad to study art. Later she escaped newspaper harrassment by travelling to Italy: Rome and Florence (where she met Walpole's friend Horace Mann
). This voyage... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susanna Watts | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane West | JW
uses heroic couplets for formal poems like To the Island of Sicily (on the retreat of the king and queen of the Two Sicilies before the French Army of Italy, commanded by Napoleon
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Helen Maria Williams | Published in two volumes, by G. G. and J. Robinson
, this opens with further discussion of Switzerland, after a preface written with maturity and confidence in her own ability to deflect hostile criticism... |
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)... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mariana Starke | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Charles | 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. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
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... |
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