Napoleon I Emperor of France

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

A note in Campaspe confesses that the subject of the title-poem is over-ambitious. It is an allegory in which Alexander the Great (representing Glory) resigns Campaspe (representing Beauty) to Apelles the sculptor (Genius). This piece...

Her first diary entry reads in full: Set out from Charles Street at four o'clock; slept at the Blue Posts at Witham. This earliest journal, covering MB 's first visit abroad, savours...

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...

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...