Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
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Napoleon I, Emperor of France
Standard Name: Napoleon I,, Emperor of France
Used Form: Napoleon Bonaparte
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| Textual Production | Joseph Conrad | The year after JC
's death there appeared his Suspense, an unfinished historical novel set during the Napoleon
ic wars. 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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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, p. iii - iv; v-xxi. xx |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | She apologises to her readers in a foreword (written at Paris) for presenting the life-story of a liar, thief and forger, and for allowing him, too, to tell it himself. This man, Hector Ratichon, served... |
| 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 | 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. 6 |
| 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... |
| Residence | Germaine de Staël | GS
returned to Paris from exile in England after the abdication of Napoleon
. Staël, Germaine de. Dix années d’exil. Treuttel and Würtz. xviii Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 125 |
| 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 |
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.
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.
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
.
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.
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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