
The Emperor's Shadow
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Anne Whitehead brings to life Napoleon's time on St Helena and the web of connections around the globe which framed his last years. Betsy's father, William Balcombe, was well-connected in London, and he smuggled letters and undertook a clandestine mission to Paris for Napoleon.
Betsy's friendship with Napoleon cast a shadow over the rest of her colourful life. She married a Regency cad, who soon left her and their daughter, and she travelled to Australia in 1823 with her father, who was appointed the first Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales. After her father was exposed for fraud and the family lost their fortune, she returned to London and published a memoir which turned her into a celebrity.
With her extraordinary connections to royalty in London and to the Bonaparte family and their courtiers, Betsy Balcombe led a life worthy of a Regency romance. This new account reveals Napoleon at his most vulnerable, human and reflective, and a woman caught in some of the most dramatic events of her time.
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Anne Whitehead deftly weaves a lively, poignant tale of Napoleon's last years on St Helena and the precocious teenager whose impudent charm briefly enlivened his exile. Her indefatigable pursuit of a tantalising archival trail takes her readers from St Helena to England, Scotland, France and New South Wales, uncovering a life curiously shadowed by its early brush with fame. -- Professor Penny Russell, University of Sydney, author of Savage or Civilised? A fascinating exploration of the life journey of Betsy Balcombe Abell from St Helena to Sydney to London. This is a well-researched and readable history of the dramatic repercussions for an English family of its proximity to Napoleon in his final years on St Helena. -- Professor Ann Curthoys, University of Sydney St Helena: an exiled emperor in the garden pavilion and in the house a pretty flighty teenager. And therefrom spring some fascinating narratives, ending up, after a disastrous marriage to a stylish cad, in colonial New South Wales. -- Marion Halligan, award-winning author Deftly woven... Whitehead's history is thorough, possibly the best account of Betsy, interesting for what it tells us about the life of an ordinary woman. * Sydney Morning Herald * The most meticulously researched version yet of Betsy's incredible life * Herald Sun *More details
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- Intro
- COVER PAGE
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- OTHER BOOKS BY ANNE WHITEHEAD
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- PART ONE
- 1 THE NEWS
- 2 THE PRISONER
- 3 FRIENDS AND FOES
- 4 THE BRIARS
- 5 THE PAVILION
- 6 BONEY'S LITTLE PAGES
- 7 THE FRENCH SUITE
- 8 THE ADMIRAL'S BALL
- 9 LAST DAYS AT THE PAVILION
- 10 LONGWOOD HOUSE
- 11 THE NEW GOVERNOR
- 12 GOLD LACE AND NODDING PLUMES
- 13 THIS ACCURSED PLACE
- 14 THE THINNING RANKS
- 15 THE SICK LION
- 16 OUR BEAUTIFUL ISLAND
- 17 THE COMPANY OF A GREEN PARROT
- 18 AT THE MERCY OF THE ENGLISH
- 19 FAREWELL TO THE ISLAND
- PART TWO
- 20 THE TIES THAT BIND
- 21 THE EMBATTLED SURGEON
- 22 AN IMPENDING TEMPEST
- 23 THE ST HELENA PLOT
- 24 OFFICIAL DISGRACE
- 25 AN ITEM OF NEWS
- 26 THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
- 27 MARRY IN HASTE . . .
- 28 'LA PETITE ANGLETERRE'
- 29 THE CLEARING FOG
- PART THREE
- 30 SYDNEY TOWN
- 31 'THE INTERESTING MRS ABELL'
- 32 THE FASHIONABLES
- 33 A FLEETING ENTENTE CORDIALE
- 34 THE TREASURY UNDER THE BED
- 35 'TERRIBLE HOLLOW'
- 36 A FRACTURED FAMILY
- 37 RECOLLECTIONS OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON
- PICTURE SECTION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- NOTES
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