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The lonely empress; a biography of Elizabeth of Austria.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haslip, Joan, 1912-1994.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elisabeth, Empress, consort of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1837-1898.
- Elisabeth.
- Habsburg, House of.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lyman, Philip (envelope) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Glymph, Dianne T. (envelope) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 462 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cleveland : World Pub. Co., [1965]
- Contents:
- The Wittelsbachs
- 'The only man in the Hofburg'
- Supreme autocrat
- First meeting
- The last days of liberty
- 'Long live our empress'
- Life in the Hofburg
- Elizabeth a mother
- State visit to Italy
- 'Eljens Erzsebet'
- Birth of an Hapsburg heir
- Open flight
- Madeira and Corfu
- The return
- The Mexican adventure
- Andrassy and the Hungarian compromise
- The aftermath of defeat
- King and queen of Hungary
- State visits
- Whims and moods
- Death of Archduchess Sophia
- The great exhibition
- The ball of the 'Musikverein'
- Visit to France
- An English hunting season
- 'The queen of the chase'
- The crown prince marries
- Growing discontent
- The cousins
- At odds with the world
- The isles of Greece
- Mary Vetsera
- 'Where did we fail?'
- Never at rest
- 'Let death take me unawares'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-448).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has envelope addressed to Philip Lyman from Dianne T. Glymph and The Greenville County Library laid in.
- OCLC:
- 424477
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