Title: Betsy and the Emperor
Description: In 1815 on the remote island of Saint Helena, fourteen-year-old Betsy Balcombe develops a friendship with Napoleon Bonaparte who, after his defeat at Waterloo, is brought there as an exile and is housed with her family.
Subjects: Fiction, Friendship, History, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Europe, fiction
Places: Saint Helena
People: Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell (d. 1871), Napoleon I Emperor of the French (1769-1821)
Time periods: 19th century