Napoleon I Emperor of France

JP 's first purpose included drawing a distinction between a brave patriot and a military plunderer. Revising for the tenth edition, 1819, she was struck by the continuing timeliness of this purpose: by the...

During the next few years ALB drafted several poems which she left unpublished: poems on public affairs instead of, like most of her earlier unpublished verse, on private topics.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

An obituary of EST published first in the Monthly Magazine and then, with some variations, in the Gentleman's Magazine, said that she contributed to nearly every respectable periodical of her age, and worked on...

RS based her adult novel Blood and Sand on the story of the actual Thomas Keith from Edinburgh, who fought against Napoleon , was captured in Egypt in 1807, converted to Islam , and made...

AP published a Narrative of Three Years' Residence in France . . . including some Authentic Particulars respecting the Early Life of the French Emperor . . ..

AH left four manuscript volumes of poetry, three now at the Royal College of Surgeons and one at Aberdeen University .The works that she left unprinted were chiefly songs (some of them pastoral)...

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.

The year after JC 's death there appeared his Suspense, an unfinished historical novel set during the Napoleon ic wars.

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.

In this work LSC displays meticulous attention to historical detail, discussing figures connected with French history from Richard the Lion-Hearted to Napoleon . A modern critic suggests on the one hand that it...

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 ...

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...

After the pasted-in pages and a section devoted to Tasso , the volume moves to a poem modelled on the tabular lists of good and evil in his life that are kept by Defoe 's...