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See Wikipedia's 1805 Page and the 1805 Calendar; Brainy History also has a 1805 Page

Read texts of 1805, such as Martha Ballad's Diary, 1805;

See Sir Thomas Lawrence's The Fluyder Children (1805)

Novels of 1805

Isabella Kelly.The Secret. This novel plays an outrageous trick on the reader: a huge inset tale, almost one-third of the novel, is presented as if it is the tale of the heroine's birth, but it is revealed at the end only to be a narrative written by the villainess! One of the heroine's friends is a bigamist.

Harriet Lee and Sophia Lee. The last volume of The Canterbury Tales. (Some of the stories reprinted by AMS Press and by Pandora Press)

Novel Set in 1805

Cartland, Barbara. No Escape from Love. The Bantam Barbara Cartland Library 75. NY: Bantam Books, 1977.

Portraits of 1805

Madame Recamier (1805) by Baron Gerard (Musee Carnavalet)

Madame Riviere (1805) by Ingres (Musee du Louvre)

Dresses of 1805 from Costume Parisien

Ball Dress, with Shawl and Turban, 1805. The words above and below this illustration (not visible in this cropped image) read "An 13. Costume Parisien. Turban de Drap d'Or. Aigrette d'Oiseau de Paradis." The lady's feet reveal that we are seeing the back of this dress, not the front. The dress dips to a low v on the back. The collar of lace is vaguely in the Tudor style, while the short sleeves are trimmed with puffy rouleaux. The shawl is clearly a cashmere shawl in the popular pine style, a style that we see in the portrait of Josephine wearing a dress made from a cashmere shawl and wearing another.

Full Evening Dress, 1805. This gown is cut daringly low on the breasts. The high collar in the Renaissance style further accentuates the lady's bust line. Beautiful embroidery trails down the center of the gown and along the hem of the skirt with its dragging train.