Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Napoleon I, Emperor of France
Standard Name: Napoleon I,, Emperor of France
Used Form: Napoleon Bonaparte
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Plumptre | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Charles | 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. |
Textual Production | Joseph Conrad | The year after JC
's death there appeared his Suspense, an unfinished historical novel set during the Napoleon
ic wars. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 158 Ehrsam, Theodore G. A Bibliography of Joseph Conrad. Scarecrow Press. 8 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | 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... |
Textual Production | Sarah Grand | 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. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge. 213 |
Textual Production | Jane Porter | JP
's first purpose included drawing a distinction between a brave patriot and a military plunderer. Porter, Jane. Thaddeus of Warsaw. T. N. Longman and O. Rees. v |
Textual Production | Anne Damer | 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... |
Textual Production | Clemence Dane | |
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/. |
Textual Production | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 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... |
Textual Production | Carola Oman | 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 |
Textual Production | Germaine de Staël | 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. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 69-70 Lessenich, Rolf. “Literary Views of English Rhine Romanticism 1760-1860”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 10 , No. 4, pp. 480-18. 490 Lonchamp, Frédéric-Charles. L’Œuvre Imprimé de Madame Germaine de Staël. Suisse. 55-61 |
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 |
Textual Production | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | 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. University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/. Emmuska, Baroness Orczy,. Links in the Chain of Life. Hutchinson. 190 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1707 (18 October 1934): 717 |
Timeline
1 January 1804: Haiti became an independent black republic...
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1 January 1804
Haiti became an independent black republic after the capitulation (the previous November) of a large force sent by Napoleon
to quell the rebellion there.
18 May 1804: At the coronation ceremony which made him...
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18 May 1804
At the coronation ceremony which made him Emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte
took the crown from the hands of the Pope and placed it on his own head.
December 1807: A French army occupied Lisbon; Napoleon had...
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December 1807
A French army occupied Lisbon; Napoleon
had ordered the invasion of Portugal because it was defying the Berlin Decrees which prohibited trade with Britain.
March 1808: Napoleon's forces entered Madrid; on 12 July...
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March 1808
Napoleon
's forces entered Madrid; on 12 JulyJoseph Bonaparte
was installed as King of Spain, following the successive abdication of two Spanish kings, father and son.
3 May 1808: Goya painted a picture of the defenders of...
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3 May 1808
Goya
painted a picture of the defenders of Madrid facing a firing squad after the city's capture by Napoleon
.
12 July 1808: A British expeditionary force under Sir Arthur...
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12 July 1808
A British expeditionary force under Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington)
sailed to relieve Corunna in Spain.
4 or 6 October 1809: Spencer Perceval assumed office as Prime...
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4 or 6 October 1809
Spencer Perceval
assumed office as Prime Minister. He was a Tory, an Evangelical, and an abolitionist, strongly committed to the war against France.
1811: This year the war against Napoleon cost the...
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1811
This year the war against Napoleon
cost the British government 56 million pounds (nearly three times the 20 million it had cost in the year 1794).
19 October 1812: Napoleon's Grande Armée (which had numbered...
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19 October 1812
Napoleon
's Grande Armée
(which had numbered 691,000 when it crossed the river Neman in Lithuania on 23 June) evacuated Moscow; fire had destroyed the city since their arrival in early September.
24 December 1812: The first news of Napoleon's catastrophic...
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24 December 1812
The first news of Napoleon
's catastrophic retreat from Moscow reached Britain through a report in The Times.
March 1815: Napoleon escaped from the island of Elba,...
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March 1815
Napoleon
escaped from the island of Elba, and marched northwards through France, gathering an army for a further military showdown with the nations of Europe.
18 June 1815: Napoleon's power was decisively crushed at...
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18 June 1815
Napoleon
's power was decisively crushed at the battle of Waterloo, not far from Brussels.
8 July 1815: Under terms set by the Congress of Vienna,...
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8 July 1815
Under terms set by the Congress of Vienna, Louis XVIII
was restored for the second time to the throne of France, from which he had been driven by Napoleon
.
September 1815: The Irish Legion which had fought in Napoleon's...
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September 1815
The Irish Legion
which had fought in Napoleon
's armies against England was disbanded; many of these soldiers emigrated to the USA.
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