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Textual Production | Isa Blagden | IB
died eleven days after the death of Napoléon III
, whom she greatly admired; her last, somewhat illegible, lines of poetry were composed on the subject of his death. Austin, Alfred, and Isa Blagden. “Memoir”. Poems, William Blackwood and Sons. xix |
Literary Setting | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Ishmael is set in Brittany and Paris, mainly between 1850 and 1867, during the reign of Louis Napoleon
. The title character is the son of a Breton aristocrat, despised by his father on... |
Literary Setting | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The volume revolves around the events in Italy surrounding Napoleon III
's betrayal, in the treaty of Villafranca in July 1859, of allies in the Italian nationalist cause against Austria, but earlier poems are also... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Critics were divided about the success of the poem, as was perhaps to be expected given EBB
's passionate embrace of Italian nationalism and her criticism of British foreign policy. The Guardian called it an... |
Textual Production | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | CFC
's historical article History of the House of Savoy was published anonymously under her initials in The Westminster Review. This was a topical subject: two years after this Napoleon III
was planning to... |
Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | Her work for the annuals led to her connection with Lady Blessington
and her niece Marguerite Power
. Despite the disapproval of other friends she was a regular visitor to Blessington's home, Gore House... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Dixie | The widowed mother
of Lady Florence Douglas (later FD
) converted to Roman Catholicism
and fled to Paris (and to the protection of the French Emperor
) with her younger children, lest their guardians should... |
politics | Florence Dixie | In her autobiographical novel The Story of Ijain, FD
relates her awakening to the cruelty of power when in France she witnessed the ceremony of degradation, before a jeering crowd, of a soldier... |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | While they were in Paris their visitors included philosopher and politician Victor Cousin
, writers Alfred de Vigny
, Jules Barthélemy Saint Hilaire
, and Léon de Wailly
, Positivist philosopher Auguste Comte
, and... |
Health | Harriet Hamilton King | She writes that her health suffered greatly from dwelling so intensely on such a painful topic; and I had the sensation strongly that I was being dragged down to the grave by Orsini
, to... |
Literary Setting | Harriet Hamilton King | The first part of the collection concerns Giuseppe Garibaldi
, Felice Orsini
(whose assassination attempt on Napoleon III
it defends), and the cause the author herself had fervently embraced: that of Italian nationalism. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press. 82 King, Harriet Hamilton. Aspromonte and Other Poems. Macmillan. vii |
Textual Production | Norah Lofts | NL
published another work of historical fiction, A Rose for Virtue: The Very Private Life of Hortense
, Stepdaughter of Napoleon I
, Mother of Napoleon III. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 80 |
Residence | Maria Theresa Longworth | She was prompted to move to South Africa when she learned that Empress Eugénie
, widow of Napoleon III
, would be travelling there to visit the grave of her son, who had been killed... |
Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | To her many friends and visitors Lady Blessington soon added the exiled Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
, John Forster
, and in the early 1840s, Charles Dickens
. Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey. 340-1, 376, 419-0 |
Textual Production | Jessie White Mario | Jessie White (later JWM
) published her translation of the Italian revolutionary Felice Orsini
's graphic The Austrian Dungeons in Italy, which had not yet reached print. Orsini was later executed after making an... |
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