Napoleon I Emperor of France

The year after JC 's death there appeared his Suspense, an unfinished historical novel set during the Napoleon ic wars.

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...

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...

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...

CD edited and published The Nelson Touch, a selection of letters from a national hero; she noted parallels between the military state of Britain confronting Napoleon and confronting Hitler .

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...

In her earliest years in Paris she was the mistress first of the comte d'Artois (who much later reigned as Charles X ) and then of the duc de Chartres (later duc d'Orléans , later...

One of the last names she drops is that of Madame du Beauharnais , later Josephine Bonaparte, whom she represents as genuinely attached to her first husband (though neither of the pair were faithful).

Under the rule of Napoleon , both as consul and as emperor, says the editor of GE 's journal, she again moved in the higher circles.

Publishers Weekly praised, as well as the mingling of irony and pathos in the novel's tone, its effortless presentation of abstruse research into daily life in Enlightenment-era Saxony, German reactions to the French Revolution...

While she was staying with Turner she sat for a sculpted bust by David Dunbar ; friends alleged that the result looked like Napoleon .

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

The title-page quotes Shakespeare 's Richard II about the deposing of a king. The novel opens with precision: at five o'clock on 22 June 1791, with aristocrats fearful for their fate in the aftermath of...

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.Its publication...

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...