The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria - Softcover

Hamann, Brigitte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571271308 ISBN 13: 9780571271306

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2011

Synopsis

The Reluctant Empress 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.

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About the Author:

Brigitte Hamann (b. 1940) is an author and historian based in Vienna. She was born in Essen, Germany, and studied history in Münster and Vienna before returning to Essen to work as a journalist. In 1965 she married the historian and academic Günther Hamann (1924-1994), moved to Vienna and took joint Austrian-German citizenship. She earned her doctorate at the University of Vienna with a 1978 thesis on the life of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, published in book form that same year. Her first work to be translated into English was The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1986, later reissued in Faber Finds). Subsequent books have included Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeship (1999) and Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler's Bayreuth (2005).

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0571271308
• ISBN 13: 9780571271306
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 450