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Links to Other Sites on 1812; links last verified 4/26/4; Last Update 4/30/4

See Wikipedia's 1812 Page and the 1812 Calendar; Brainy History also has a 1812 Page

Read texts of 1812, such as Martha Ballad's Diary, 1812;

Discuss the war of 1812 with an online group.

Fort Ross, California is built by Russians

See a plate from Les Peuples de la Russie (1812)

See a plate from The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster (Vol. II, 1812)

See Casper David Friedrich's The Cross on the Mountain, (1812)

See Kikukawa Eizan's woodblock print "Long Pipe," (1812)

See Kikukawa Eizan's woodblock print "At the Dressing Table," (1812)

Novels of 1812

Maria Edgeworth The Absentee. Available from Penguin and other presses. One of Edgeworth's Irish novels that has stayed in print. The vision of London society is very funny.

---. Emilie de Coulanges. A tale of the struggles of French emigres in London. The story has a wonderful, talented heroine.

---. Vivian. A tale of political corruption.

Novels Set in 1812

Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe's Sword: The Salamanca Campaign. New York: Penguin, 1984.

Dean, Dinah. Flight from the Eagle. Masquerade Historical 24. Toronto: Harlequin, 1974.

Gladstone, Maggie. The Scandalous Lady. The Lacebridge Ladies 2. New York: Playboy Press, 1978.

Grasso, Patricia. Violets in the Snow. NY: Dell, 1998.

Lane, Allison. The Earl's Revenge. NY: Signet, 1997.

---. The Second Lady Emily. NY: Signet, 1998.

Walsh, Sheila. Madalena. New York: Signet, 1977.

Warady, Phylis. Breach of Honor. NY: Zebra, 1995.

Williams, Claudette. Spring Gambit. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976.

Wolf, Joan. Margarita. New York: Signet, 1982.

Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Mongez, 1812

Dresses of 1812 from La Belle Assemblee

January 1812 (Vol. 5, No. 28)

Februay 1812 (Vol. 5, No. 29)

March 1812 (Vol. 5, No. 30)

April 1812 (Vol. 5, No. 31)

May 1812 (Vol. 5, No. 32)

October 1812 (Vol. 6, No. 37)

Dresses of 1812 from Costume Parisien

Left: 1812, plate no. 1280. Man's redingote.

Center: 1812, plate no. unknown. Summer cotton dress with spencer; man in trousers.

Right: 1812, plate no. 1207. Evening dress with a fur-lined opera cloak.

Dresses of 1812 from The Ladies' Monthly Museum

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Dresses of 1812 of The Lady's Magazine


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