num_pages: 439
description: She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and touching, curiously modern personality, her refusals to conform, escaping to a life of her own, filled with literature, ideas and the new political passions of the age.This edition is a translation into English from the original German by Ruth Hein.
language: English
title: The Reluctant Empress
titlecomplete: The Reluctant Empress
characters: Sissi - Empress Elisabeth of Austria
genres: Historical, Biography, Politics, European History, German Literature, Nonfiction, Feminism, 19th Century, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 1816
publisher: Ullstein