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The Reluctant Empress

Author : Brigitte Hamann
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571287565
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Empress written by Brigitte Hamann and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real-life tale behind Netflix's Empress Sisi and the Anarchist, whose assassination in 1898 shocked the world. Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known to her family as 'Sisi', belongs to a famous love story of European royalty. In 1853 the Emperor Franz Josef, the most eligible bachelor in Europe, fell in love with her at first sight when she was 15. They were married the next year. On the surface, it was a fairy-tale marriage, all the more poignant, with hindsight, because her tragic death augured the twilight years of the Habsburg Empire. First published in 1988, Brigitte Hamann's definitive biography tells Elisabeth's story from her birth into Bavarian nobility to her assassination at the hands of an Italian anarchist. In her lifetime she was idolised solely for her grace and beauty; but Hamann shows us a stronger character, bitter at her marriage, seeking independence, and struggling against the powerful influence of her mother-in-law, the Archduchess Sophie.

The Reluctant Empress

Author : Brigitte Hamann
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Empress written by Brigitte Hamann and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1986 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extremely interesting biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, the beautifland mysterious Queen who was the Romantic idol of 19th-century Europe and wasassassinated in 1898.

The Lonely Empress

Author : Joan Haslip
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781842120989
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Lonely Empress written by Joan Haslip and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consort to Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, Elizabeth of Bavaria was a modern woman who fled the confines of Habsburg to roam free--she fancied dangerous riding, sailing, and poetry--but her life ended with her assassination in 1896. "Makes us feel the impact of her beauty as well as the fatal egotism which led to unhappiness, restlessness, and futility."--"Elizabeth Harvey." "Well documented and illustrated...a grand and fascinating tale."--"Brian Aldiss"

The Accidental Empress

Author : Allison Pataki
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147679023X
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Accidental Empress written by Allison Pataki and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Discover the “captivating, absorbing, and beautifully told” (Kathleen Grissom) love story of Sisi, the Austro-Hungarian empress and wife of Emperor Franz Joseph—perfect for fans of the Netflix series The Empress! The year is 1853, and the Habsburgs are Europe’s most powerful ruling family. With his empire stretching from Austria to Russia, from Germany to Italy, Emperor Franz Joseph is young, rich, and ready to marry. Fifteen-year-old Elisabeth, “Sisi,” Duchess of Bavaria, travels to the Habsburg Court with her older sister, who is betrothed to the young emperor. But shortly after her arrival at court, Sisi finds herself in an unexpected dilemma: she has inadvertently fallen for and won the heart of her sister’s groom. Franz Joseph reneges on his earlier proposal and declares his intention to marry Sisi instead. Thrust onto the throne of Europe’s most treacherous imperial court, Sisi upsets political and familial loyalties in her quest to win, and keep, the love of her emperor, her people, and of the world. With Pataki’s rich period detail and cast of complex, bewitching characters, The Accidental Empress offers “another absolutely compelling story” (Mary Higgins Clark) with this glimpse into one of history’s most intriguing royal families, shedding new light on the glittering Hapsburg Empire and its most mesmerizing, most beloved “Fairy Queen.”

The Reluctant Empress

Author : Brigitte Hamann
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Sissi’s World

Author : Maura E. Hametz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501313452
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Sissi’s World written by Maura E. Hametz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media of one of the most popular, revered, and misunderstood female figures in European cultural history. Sissi's World explores the cultural foundations for the endurance of the Sissi legends and the continuing fascination with the beautiful empress: a Bavarian duchess born in 1837, the longest-serving Austrian empress, and the queen of Hungary who died in 1898 at the hands of a crazed anarchist. Despite the continuing fascination with “the beloved Sissi," the Habsburg empress, her impact, and legacy have received scant attention from scholars. This collection will go beyond the popular biographical accounts, recountings of her mythic beauty, and scattered studies of her well-known eccentricities to offer transdisciplinary cultural perspectives across art, film, fashion, history, literature, and media.

Elizabeth, Empress of Austria

Author : Edward Morgan Alborough De Burgh
Publisher : London : Hutchinson & Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth, Empress of Austria written by Edward Morgan Alborough De Burgh and published by London : Hutchinson & Company. This book was released on 1899 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elizabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary

Author : Clara Tschudi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary written by Clara Tschudi and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elizabeth, Empress of Russia

Author : Tamara Talbot Rice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth, Empress of Russia written by Tamara Talbot Rice and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1709, the illegitimate daughter of Peter the Great and a woman of Livonian yeoman stock, Elizabeth was the only one of the Tsar's many children to survive to maturity. She lived through the reigns of four monarchs after her father's death, before seizing the throne in 1741 at the age of thirty-two. Faced with governing a country made unstable by frequent changes of ruler and caught up in a web of international politics, she evolved a policy that set Russia on the road to becoming a major Western power.--From book jacket.

Elizabeth, Empress of Austria

Author : Edward Morgan Alborough De Burgh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth, Empress of Austria written by Edward Morgan Alborough De Burgh and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elisabeth, Empress of Austria

Author : Edward Morgan Alborough De Burgh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elisabeth, Empress of Austria written by Edward Morgan Alborough De Burgh and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elizabeth, Empress of Austria

Author : Count Egon Corti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494119287
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth, Empress of Austria written by Count Egon Corti and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.

Death by Fame

Author : Andrew Sinclair
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250100879
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Death by Fame written by Andrew Sinclair and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A well-written, thoroughly researched story of a popular and beautiful empress, who, while self-indulgent, sought a life of privacy and peace, and showed sympathy and charity toward the poor." - Kirkus Reviews In 1898 Luigi Lucheni fatally stabbed Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, on Lake Geneva as she prepared to board a steamer from the Mont Blanc pier. Her life had been one of both profound sadness and inspiring perseverance; and in its course she set the style for the royal rebels who would follow her, particularly the late Diana, Princess of Wales. While still a child, Elisabeth was married to the Hapsburg prince Franz Josef, heir to the Austrian Empire. She gave him three children; one of whom, Crown Prince Rudolf, would later commit suicide at Mayerling. Finding the atmosphere of the Austro-Hungarian court stifling, the increasingly erratic empress traveled incessantly. Abandoning her husband to the attentions of the Viennese comic actress Katharina Schratt, Elisabeth went on errands of mercy to the docks and slums of London and Liverpool, Barcelona and Naples, Smyrna and Marseilles. She was the despair of local police, who could not protect her, even though she wore disguises. She supported independence movements in Ireland, where she hunted superbly alongside her close companion, the English cavalryman "Bay" Middleton; and also in Hungary, an integral part of her husband's deteriorating empire. When Lucheni assassinated the empress, he killed the most alluring royal figure of the Victorian age. But fame was her real executioner. Her celebrity had led to her death. Elisabeth had been driven into loneliness until she had lost all sense of reality, pursuing a desperate liberty that a confined marriage would never allow her.

The Empress Elizabeth of Austria

Author : Karl Tschuppik
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787205207
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book The Empress Elizabeth of Austria written by Karl Tschuppik and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the English translation of the 1929 German language biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, by Austrian journalist and writer Karl Tschuppik. Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898) was the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I, and thus Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Queen consort of Croatia and Bohemia. Born into Bavarian royalty, Elisabeth (“Sisi”) enjoyed an informal upbringing before marrying Franz Joseph at the age of sixteen. The marriage thrust her into the much more formal Habsburg court life, for which she was ill-prepared and which she found uncongenial. Early in the marriage she was at odds with her mother-in-law, Princess Sophie, who took over the rearing of Elisabeth’s daughters, one of whom, Sophie, died in infancy. The birth of a male heir, Rudolf, improved her standing at court considerably, but her health suffered under the strain, and she would often visit Hungary for its more relaxed environment. She came to develop a deep kinship with Hungary, and helped to bring about the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary in 1867. The death of her only son Rudolf, and his mistress Mary Vetsera, in a murder-suicide tragedy at his hunting lodge at Mayerling in 1889 was a blow from which Elisabeth never recovered. She withdrew from court duties and travelled widely, unaccompanied by her family. She was obsessively concerned with maintaining her youthful figure and beauty, demanding to be sewn into her leather corsets and spending two or three hours a day on her coiffure. While travelling in Geneva in 1898, she was stabbed to death by an Italian anarchist named Luigi Lucheni who selected her because he had missed his chance to assassinate Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans, and wanted to kill the next member of royalty that he saw. Elisabeth was the longest serving Empress-consort of Austria, at 44 years.

Elisabeth, Empress of Austria

Author : Alfred Buschek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780741458995
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book Elisabeth, Empress of Austria written by Alfred Buschek and published by . This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Married at seventeen. Betrayed by her mother-in-law. Forced to live behind castle walls. The historic tale of the most famous Empress in Europe comes alive. Torn from her homeland and the man she loved, the deeply saddened Elisabeth is pushed into a brutal world by her husband's neglect and his affair. She makes adjustments in her life as a woman and as an Empress in order to survive. The allure of sensual pleasures will constantly test the young Empress. As the years pass, sorrow leaves its mark upon the aging Elisabeth. She becomes a legend, wounded by passion and love affairs.

Elizabeth

Author : C. Tschudi
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5875394579
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (753 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth written by C. Tschudi and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Queen's Apprentice

Author : Joseph F. Patrouch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004180303
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Queen's Apprentice written by Joseph F. Patrouch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study seeks to examine a number of themes relating to the roles of the women's court of the central European Habsburgs. These include its role in helping consolidate their holdings in central Europe and the Holy Roman Empire and structure their relations with the rest of Europe.