Napoleon I Emperor of France

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. Bride Danescombe opens her narrative of her life with...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

The plot, which has many twists and complications, is quasi-historical since it centres around Napoleon just before he becomes Emperor. The other central character is a royalist, the marquis de Tallemont, who runs the restaurant...

Here, FT argues that the unavailability of divorce causes both social evil and personal unhappiness. She links the right to divorce to the God-given right to freedom exemplified and promoted by the French Revolution, and...

FB bade farewell to her husband , as he left to ride out with the French king 's army against Napoleon , who was almost at the gates of Paris.

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.

During the brief interval of peace AO travelled to Paris with her husband , hoping to see Napoleon , whom she then admired.

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...

She later lived in several places in Germany, before returning to France during the reign of Napoleon .