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Textual Production | Clemence Dane | |
Textual Production | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Much of SACD
's short fiction deals with adventure and travel. He wrote seventeen short stories about a French brigadier in Napoleon
's army, Etienne Gerard, which took over from the Sherlock Holmes sequence in... |
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, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 80 |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Walker | LMW
told her nephew, as to Popoli, I had a set for your acceptance. Fraser, Sir William. The Melvilles, Earls of Melville and the Leslies, Earls of Leven. 1890, 3 vols. 2: 329 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Sarah Grand | 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. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000. 213 |
Textual Production | Jane Porter | JP
's first purpose included drawing a distinction between a brave patriot and a military plunderer. Porter, Jane. Thaddeus of Warsaw. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803, 4 vols. v |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | During the next few years ALB
drafted several poems which she left unpublished: poems on public affairs instead of, like most of her earlier unpublished verse, on private topics. News of Napoleon
's retreat from... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | An obituary of EST
published first in the Monthly Magazine and then, with some variations, in the Gentleman's Magazine, said that she contributed to nearly every respectable periodical of her age, and worked on... |
Textual Production | Rosemary Sutcliff | 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... |
Textual Production | Anne Plumptre | AP
published a Narrative of Three Years' Residence in France . . . including some Authentic Particulars respecting the Early Life of the French Emperor
. . .. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 3d ser. 19 (1810): 448 |
Textual Production | Anne Hunter | AH
left four manuscript volumes of poetry, three now at the Royal College of Surgeons
and one at Aberdeen University
. Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009. xviii |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Plumptre | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Charles | 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. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Helen Maria Williams | Published in two volumes, by G. G. and J. Robinson
, this opens with further discussion of Switzerland, after a preface written with maturity and confidence in her own ability to deflect hostile criticism... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Louisa Stuart Costello | In this work LSC
displays meticulous attention to historical detail, Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996. 166: 130 |
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