Napoleon I Emperor of France

EN set her Carnival in Martinique, about a young servant girl struggling with class and gender limitations, in the French-speaking part of Martinique. Jeannette, a half-caste servant girl, leaves her chores to join...

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...

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...

Poems in this volume include songs, love-verses (both autobiographical and written for fictional situations), expressions of orthodox political sentiment (like an anti-Napoleonic desire to see the French monarchy restored), and ballads (probably her least...

Mitford put together landscape sketches (an agricultural landscape of fields, hedgerows, stiles, and village street), descriptions of labour in the fields, customs and festivals (May Day or a cricket match), the animals, the village shop...

The message is anti-war. EH rounds on Britain for supporting the ally of the Pope (i.e. Napoleon , who had invited the Pope to preside at his coronation as emperor the previous year). She opens...

The translation contains an uncredited twenty-page biography (presumably written by Hill) which describes Germaine de Staël as the most distinguished authoress of her time but speculates that without Napoleon 's persecution her later reputation...

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 title-page quotes Shakespeare , who is then cited in the preface to justify the genre of historical fiction. HRM mentions her consultations of records and documents, and expresses her thanks to the gentlemen of...

HMW published A Narrative of the Events which have taken place in France, from the landing of Napoleon Bonaparte , on the 1st of March, 1815, till the Restoration of Louis XVIII.

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.

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.

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

CO 's work on a series of leaders from the time of the Napoleonic wars resulted in an invitation to lecture to the Royal Society of Literature about reading the writings of Nelson , Collingwood

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...