Napoleon I, Emperor of France

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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.

Ports of call on the voyage included Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the island of St Helena, where Elizabeth Smith visited Napoleon 's tomb.

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...

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.