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Contents
CHAPTER I
DIAMOND WEDDING IN POSSENHOFEN - DUKE MAX OF BAVARIA AS A POPULAR ZITHER-PLAYER - THE DUCHESS LUDOVICA
CHAPTER II
BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF ELIZABETH OF BAVARIA
CHAPTER III
BETROTHAL OF THE EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH AND THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH AT ISCHL
CHAPTER IV
"THE ROSE OF BAVARIA" BRIDAL PROGRESS TO THE CITY ON THE DANUBE
CHAPTER V
WEDDING FESTIVITIES
CHAPTER VI
EARLY DIFFICULTIES OF THE NEW POSITION
CHAPTER VII
TRAVELLING IN THE PROVINCES - MATERNAL CARES
CHAPTER VIII
BIRTH OF THE CROWN PRINCE RUDOLPH - WAR OF 1859
CHAPTER IX
CONJUGAL DIFFERENCES - ELIZABETH'S ILL-HEALTH - HER STAY IN MADEIRA
CHAPTER X
IN CORFU - RETURN HOME - FLIGHT FROM VIENNA - THE EMPRESS DURING THE WAR OF 1866
CHAPTER XI
ELIZABETH AND POLITICS - CORONATION IN HUNGARY
CHAPTER XII
THE EMPRESS AS MOTHER THE ARCHDUCHESS MARIE VALERIE
CHAPTER XIII
THE EMPRESS AS A HORSEWOMAN
CHAPTER XIV
THE CASTLE OF GÖDÖLLÖ - ELIZABETH AS QUEEN OF HUNGARY
CHAPTER XV
THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AT VIENNA - ELIZABETH AMONG OTHER ROYAL LADIES - ELIZABETH AND THE VIENNESE
CHAPTER XVI
THE EMPRESS AND BENEFICENCE - IMPERIAL SILVER WEDDING FESTIVITIES
CHAPTER XVII
MARRIAGE OF THE CROWN PRINCE RUDOLPH - THE EMPRESS AND HER CASTLES
CHAPTER XVIII
VISIT TO BAVARIA - ELIZABETH AND KING LOUIS II.
CHAPTER XIX
THE EMPRESS ON HER TRAVELS
CHAPTER XX
THE EMPRESS AND LITERATURE
CHAPTER XXI
SICKNESS - DAILY LIFE OF THE EMPRESS - HER MANNER TOWARDS HER HOUSEHOLD, AND THE LADIES OF HER COURT
CHAPTER XXII
ELIZABETH'S DRESS AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR
CHAPTER XXIII
FRIENDSHIPS - THE CASTLE AT CORFU
CHAPTER XXIV
DEATH OF THE CROWN PRINCE RUDOLPH - DEEP MELANCHOLY
CHAPTER XXV
BETROTHAL OF THE ARCHDUCHESS MARIE VALERIE - DEATH OF THE DUCHESS LUDOVICA - RESIDENCE IN CORFU - LAST COURT FESTIVITIES AND LAST VISIT TO HUNGARY
CHAPTER XXVI
DEATH OF THE EMPRESS
CHAPTER XXVII
CONCLUSION
Preface
The kind reception accorded to my previous translations of Clara Tschudi's
biographies has encouraged me to undertake her last work which was
published in Copenhagen in December, 1900.
The sketch of the chequered career of Elizabeth of Austria-Hungary cannot
fail to interest, and to the many who know but little beyond the details of
her tragic death, the accidents of heredity, environment and sorrow, so
accurately treated by the authoress, must prove acceptable.
It is but "the foreground of human life we can examine with any exactness,"
and even a profounder study of the Empress-Queen than this claims to be,
would fail to give more than an "outline" of events with which she was
connected.
There are some singular points of similarity in the lives of this trio of
Empresses of the nineteenth century, for Eugenie of France, Augusta of
Germany and Elizabeth of Austria-Hungary were all acquainted with the
horrors of war, and inspired by noble self-denial to aid personally in
tending the sick and wounded, as well as to organise substantial relief
during disastrous outbreaks of cholera and other epidemics.
Each had to bear the poignant anguish of losing an only son, and to
experience in countless ways the powerlessness of an Imperial crown to
confer happiness on the wearer.
The present monograph, however, is not all tragedy, and many amusing
episodes are related which arose out of the incognito of the Empress during
her travels.
The occasional German and Norwegian quotations which appear in the
original work have been rendered, somewhat freely I must allow, into
English, for the benefit of such of my readers who may not be conversant
with these languages.
E. M. COPE.