Napoleon I, Emperor of France

Several poems address national political issues, and most of those in this volume express a hatred of war, usually from the point of view of bereaved women. Written at the commencement of the year 1813...

The first poem in the volume, The Wreath of Fame, comments on her own daring in aiming for this wreath. Her other topics are the rage of Napoleon (the Man of Slaughter)...

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...

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...

This is part travel book and part politically sympathetic account of post-Revolutionary France: even a defence of Napoleon 's record as ruler, with an eye to history, against the prejudice which AP understood to...

The novel tells the story of its female narrator's life during the evangelical revival in the Napoleonic era, [and] proposes religion as the antidote for revolution. Bride Danescombe opens her narrative of her life with...

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...

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.

During the brief interval of peace AO travelled to Paris with her husband , hoping to see Napoleon , whom she then admired.

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

FB bade farewell to her husband , as he left to ride out with the French king 's army against Napoleon , who was almost at the gates of Paris.

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.