Saint, Andrew. “Diary: Foscolo’s Grave”. London Review of Books, pp. 34-5.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Flora Tristan | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Walker | Here they met the Italian romantic poet Ugo Foscolo
, who had come to France to join Napoleon
's army and had been put in charge of the detained Britons. Saint, Andrew. “Diary: Foscolo’s Grave”. London Review of Books, pp. 34-5. 34 |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Walker | LMW
told her nephew, as to Popoli, I had a set for your acceptance. Fraser, Sir William. The Melvilles, Earls of Melville and the Leslies, Earls of Leven. 2: 329 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susanna Watts | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane West | 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
... |
Textual Production | Helen Maria Williams | 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. Michael-Johnston, Georgina. Helen Maria Williams: Liberty, Sensibility, and Education. University of Alberta. 252 Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon. 209, 212 |
politics | Helen Maria Williams | Crabb Robinson reported that HMW
made free with criticisms in private of Napoleon
(in whom, in fact, she had become quite disillusioned by later 1801). On 17 November that year she published her Ode to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Helen Maria Williams | 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... |
Reception | Helen Maria Williams | A police report suggested to Napoleon
that this book might arouse royalist sympathies. In July 1803 it was suppressed and copies confiscated (though they were restored at the end of August), while Napoleon used it... |
Literary responses | Helen Maria Williams | Napoleon
himself read this book and was incensed. He accused HMW
of falsehood through his ghostwritten, posthumous Napoleon in Exile, 1822. Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press. 183 |
Leisure and Society | Harriette Wilson | A masquerade ball was held at Burlington House, Piccadilly, to celebrate the abdication of Napoleon
and his confinement on the island of Elba: this was HW
's last grand public appearance. Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber. 140 |
Residence | Emma Caroline Wood | The father
of Emma Caroline Michell (later ECM) settled his family at Rosewyn in Cornwall (near the village of Michell and not far from Truro) at the onset of Napoleon
's invasion of Portugal. Bradhurst, Minna Evangeline. A Century of Letters. Printed for private circulation by R. E. Thomas and Newman. 3, 6 |
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