Brigitte Hamann: The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Knopf: 1986) (ISBN 0-394-53717-3) (410pp.).
Bavaria | Rainer Maria Rilke | Carl Maria von Weber | Santa Maria | Ludwig I of Bavaria | Maria Callas | Santa Maria Capua Vetere | Maria | Kingdom of Bavaria | Maria Theresa | Henrietta Maria of France | Lower Bavaria | José María Aznar | Maria Muldaur | Maria Bethânia | Carlo Maria Giulini | Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore | Ave Maria | Santa Maria, Bulacan | Maria Theresa of Austria | Maria Edgeworth | Sophie Tucker | Upper Bavaria | Sophie, Countess of Wessex | Maria Montessori | María Conchita Alonso | Erich Maria Remarque | Sophie | Maria João | Maria Cantwell |
Among the notable members of the Ducal branch were Duke Max, who, a talented Zither player and composer himself, ranks among the most important promoters of Bavarian folk-music; his daughters Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Queen Mary Sophie of the Two Sicilies; and in more recent times Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein.