Napoleon I, Emperor of France

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...

The virtues of this powerful Irish novel were not fully appreciated in England. Mary Russell Mitford thought that Morgan would be all right without the politics: she would be worth reading and praising if only...

RS based her adult novel Blood and Sand on the story of the actual Thomas Keith from Edinburgh, who fought against Napoleon , was captured in Egypt in 1807, converted to Islam , and made...

Here MS found the mixture that would characterise all her travel writing: vivid first-hand narrative and evocation, and reliable well-set-out information about practical matters like mileages and information about the state of roads and inns...

Following an anti-Napoleon speech by GS 's lover Benjamin Constant , her salon that night was thinly attended: a sign that opposition to the rising political power would not be tolerated.

GS left Coppet, eluding Napoleon 's spies, and travelled to St Petersburg through countries not yet under his sway (Austria, Bohemia, and Poland); she then visited Stockholm.

GS returned to Paris from exile in England after the abdication of Napoleon .

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.

GS 's De l'Allemagne (Germany), a work on German culture and politics suppressed by Napoleon , was finally published by John Murray at London, from a copy of proofs which she had hidden.

She discussed the issue of military opposition to Napoleon with Tsar Alexander I and with Bernadotte of Sweden .

The book attracted attacks from Catholics and from specialists with more knowledge than GS . One politician criticised her for attempting such a large topic, allegedly outside the realm of a woman's proper sphere. It...

The Critical Review boldly announced: This is one of the most fascinating novels we have lately met with—even though it continued, we abominate both its religion and its morals.

Benjamin Constant , formerly the lover of GS , represented her in his novel Adolphe as a woman whose mind was the most wide-ranging of any woman ever, and perhaps of any man, and...

Anne Thackeray witnessed as a small child the second funeral of Napoleon in Paris. Her memories of this event were published in Chapters from Some Memoirs, 1894.

The novel is set in Europe during the Napoleon ic era, only a few years in the past. Lingering fears of Napoleonic invasion made its subject highly topical for Porter's English readers. The brothers are...