Napoleon I Emperor of France

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...

Vincent Castleton is mesmerized by the family, called the Sioux. (The Sioux is the Benoir name for the Benoirs.) Besides, he is besottedly in love with Marguerite and feels a strong emotional...

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...

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...

It is set in Dublin and Connemara during the 1790s, the time of the author's own youth, with closing scenes in Paris. The large cast of characters includes ancient Catholic landowning families of the...

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 but speculates that without Napoleon 's persecution her later reputation...

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...

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...

She apologises to her readers in a foreword (written at Paris) for presenting the life-story of a liar, thief and forger, and for allowing him, too, to tell it himself. This man, Hector Ratichon, served...

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 .

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.

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...

She wrote it, she said, because she felt there was something very wrong in the present state of society, and . . . I did what I could to suggest a remedy.Its publication...