Napoleon I, Emperor of France

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.

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.

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...

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 .

With the resignation of Pitt in February 1801, and the succession of Henry Addington as Prime Minister, Georgiana found that she was once again a centre of political influence, confided in and consulted by Whigs...

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...

Ports of call on the voyage included Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the island of St Helena, where Elizabeth Smith visited Napoleon 's tomb.

EH was fifteen when her mind was awakened to judge for itself, on hearing someone praise Napoleon , whom she had been taught to think of as a monster. She began following his career...

Vincent Castleton is mesmerized by the family, called the Sioux. (The Sioux is the Benoir name for the Benoirs.) Besides, he is besottedly in love with Marguerite and feels a strong emotional...

It is hard to gauge the degree of Beckford's hostility towards his sister years after he published these novels. On 4 May 1817 he wrote with studied restraint that he did not think her insincere....