Napoleon I, Emperor of France

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.

Again her work was extremely popular. The French translation was banned by Napoleon because of its portrayal of nationalist resistance to conquest.Mary Russell Mitford , who thought very highly of Porter, found Wallace in...

A police report suggested to Napoleon that this book might arouse royalist sympathies. In July 1803 it was suppressed and copies confiscated (though they were restored at the end of August), while Napoleon used it...

The Critical Review boldly announced: This is one of the most fascinating novels we have lately met with—even though it continued, we abominate both its religion and its morals.

GS 's De l'Allemagne (Germany), a work on German culture and politics suppressed by Napoleon , was finally published by John Murray at London, from a copy of proofs which she had hidden.

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

EH was fifteen when her mind was awakened to judge for itself, on hearing someone praise Napoleon , whom she had been taught to think of as a monster. She began following his career...

Following an anti-Napoleon speech by GS 's lover Benjamin Constant , her salon that night was thinly attended: a sign that opposition to the rising political power would not be tolerated.

With the resignation of Pitt in February 1801, and the succession of Henry Addington as Prime Minister, Georgiana found that she was once again a centre of political influence, confided in and consulted by Whigs...

Crabb Robinson reported that HMW made free with criticisms in private of Napoleon (in whom, in fact, she had become quite disillusioned by later 1801). On 17 November that year she published her Ode to...

She discussed the issue of military opposition to Napoleon with Tsar Alexander I and with Bernadotte of Sweden .

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.

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...

BB was a striking and accomplished visual artist, though she tended to speak slightingly of her own work. Early in her marriage to Austin Davies she exhibited her work alongside his. She began a...

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.