British Book News. British Council.
(1943): 172
Napoleon I Emperor of France
Standard Name: Napoleon I,, Emperor of France
Used Form: Napoleon Bonaparte
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| 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. 1890, 3 vols. 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 | Norah Lofts | 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. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes. 80 |
| 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, 2000. 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, 1803, 4 vols. v |
| Textual Features | Irene Handl | Vincent Castleton is mesmerized by the family, called the Sioux. (The Sioux is the Benoir name for the Benoirs.) Handl, Irene. The Sioux. Cape, 1965. 6 |
| Textual Features | Christian Milne | Poems in this volume include songs, love-verses (both autobiographical and written for fictional situations), expressions of orthodox political sentiment (like an anti-Napoleonic
desire to see the French monarchy restored), and ballads (probably her least... |
| Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | Mitford put together landscape sketches (an agricultural landscape of fields, hedgerows, stiles, and village street), descriptions of labour in the fields, customs and festivals (May Day or a cricket match), the animals, the village shop... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Heyrick | The message is anti-war. EH
rounds on Britain for supporting the ally of the Pope (i.e. Napoleon
, who had invited the Pope to preside at his coronation as emperor the previous year). She opens... |
| Textual Features | Isabel Hill | The translation contains an uncredited twenty-page biography (presumably written by Hill) which describes Germaine de Staël as the most distinguished authoress of her time Hill, Isabel et al. “Translator’s Preface; Madame de Staël”. Corinne; or, Italy, translated by. Isabel Hill and L. E. L., A. L. Burt, 1857, p. iii - iv; v-xxi. xx |
| Textual Features | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | It is set in Dublin and Connemara during the 1790s, the time of the author's own youth, with closing scenes in Paris. The large cast of characters includes ancient Catholic landowning families of the... |
| Textual Features | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | The title-page quotes Shakespeare
, who is then cited in the preface to justify the genre of historical fiction. HRM
mentions her consultations of records and documents, and expresses her thanks to the gentlemen of... |
| Textual Features | Elma Napier | EN
set her Carnival in Martinique, about a young servant girl struggling with class and gender limitations, in the French-speaking part of Martinique. Jeannette, a half-caste servant girl, leaves her chores to join... |
Timeline
3 April 1817: Mary Baker launched her brief career as Princess...
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3 April 1817
Mary Baker
launched her brief career as Princess Caraboo, when an Overseer of the Poor at Almondesbury in Gloucestershire reported her presence to a local magistrate.
Gutch, John Matthew. “Caraboo, 1817”. Caraboo. A Narrative of a Singular Imposition, Practised upon the Benevolence of a Lady Residing in the Vicinity of the City of Bristol, By a Young Woman of the name of Mary Willcocks, alias Baker, alias Bakerstendht, alias Caraboo, Princess of Javasu, Baldwin, Cradock and Joy.
3-4, 55
“Princess Caraboo”. The Museum of Hoaxes.
5 May 1821: Napoleon died in confinement on the island...
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5 May 1821
Napoleon
died in confinement on the island of St Helena.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
80, 86
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
252
7 September 1822: Brazil was declared independent from Portugal...
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7 September 1822
Brazil was declared independent from Portugal by its former Portuguese regent, who constituted himself Emperor Pedro I of Brazil
.
The World Factbook. http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20060716100200/http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/.
under Brazil
“Library of Congress Country Studies”. Country Studies/Area Handbook Series, 2003.
1833: The Arc de Triomphe in Paris was completed,...
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1833
The Arc de Triomphe in Paris was completed, and Napoleon
's statue was restored to the top of the column in the Place Vendôme.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
80
22 June 1941: Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union (named...
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22 June 1941
Hitler
's invasion of the Soviet Union (named Operation Barbarossa, and in contravention of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 23 August 1939) began with a surprise attack at dawn which destroyed a thousand Soviet planes...
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