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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… People > Art and Literature People > Travel Keywords Women Salon Letters travelogue French Revolution Girondins napoleonic era National specificities sociable spaces Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) showed a sustained appetence for … and particularly British travellers to France. Williams, who soon shed any illusions she might have had with regard to Napoleon Bonaparte’s policy , 12   opened a cosmopolitan salon on the Quai Malaquais that could accommodate up to 70 … Williams stopped writing political works during the Empire, a period of strong censorship. It was not until the fall of Napoleon that British visitors were able to return to France. Although Stone’s bankruptcy in 1815 reduced Williams’s …

William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]

… community, and nation-building. People > Art and Literature Keywords Solitude French Revolution Domesticity Politics Napoleon Poet Laureate In a letter of 27 October 1818 to Richard Woodhouse, John Keats famously distanced himself from … supporter of the French Revolution in the early 1790s, Wordsworth now viewed the military and political threat that Napoleon posed to Great Britain and the rest of Europe with increasing alarm. In 1803, Wordsworth started drilling with … a treaty that would curb France’s military power and protect the independence of Spain and Portugal, invaded by Napoleon’s armies the previous year. His deep interest in international politics and his defence of the sovereignty of …

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis [ Aristocracy ]

… en Angleterre. People > Aristocracy Keywords Education Correspondence French Revolution Travel writing emigration napoleonic era restoration Salons Memoires Mme de Genlis et le milieu orléaniste Issue de la petite noblesse, … durant ses deux séjours en Angleterre. … Education … Correspondence … French Revolution … Travel writing … emigration … napoleonic era … restoration … Salons … Memoires … Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis …

Parole towns in Britain [ Cities ]

… Abstract During Britain’s war with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France (1793-1815), thousands of captured French officers and other captives were placed on parole in towns … used by Britain for certain types of prisoners who had been captured because of war. During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, thousands of men, women and children arrived in Britain as prisoners of war, and many were sent to live … 12 . Elodie Duche, Charitable Connections: Transnational Financial Networks and Relief for British Prisoners of War in Napoleonic France, 1803-1814 Napoleonica. La Revue, 3, 21, 2014, pp. 74-117. In August of 1815 another paroled prisoner …

Boxing [ Games & Sports ]

… To legitimize boxing, various discourses shaped it as a science and as an art in the context of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Boxing became increasingly associated to a conservative and nationalist perception of Englishness as … To legitimize boxing, various discourses shaped it as a science and as an art in the context of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Boxing became increasingly associated to a conservative and nationalist perception of Englishness as … p.28. A national and manly entertainment William Cobbett ‘In Defense of Boxing’ (1805) During the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, the debates on boxing and its effects on the national character became even more strident. Political …