num_pages: 410
description: Traces the fame and adulation of one of the nineteenth century's most popular women, from her impoverished youth to her strange new life married to Emperor Franz Joseph
language: German
title: The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria
titlecomplete: The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria
characters: Sissi - Empress Elisabeth of Austria
genres: Historical, History, German Literature, Feminism, 19th Century, Biography Memoir, European History, Politics, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1814
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf