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Emma Orczy
AuthorBooks · Second hand1865-1947
Baroness Emma Magdalena Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci, usually known as Baroness Orczy, was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring The Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save French aristocrats from "Madame Guillotine" during the French Revolution, establishing the "hero with a secret identity" in popular culture.
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About Emma Orczy
Birth
1865
Death
1947
First book
1905
Years writing
121
Baroness Emma Magdalena Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci, usually known as Baroness Orczy, was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring The Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save French aristocrats from "Madame Guillotine" during the French Revolution, establishing the "hero with a secret identity" in popular culture.
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Biography adapted from Wikipedia (text shortened). View article · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Emma Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865 and settled in London after living in cities like Brussels and Paris.
Before finding success as a writer, she trained in art and worked as an illustrator alongside her husband.
Her most famous work, The Scarlet Pimpernel, was co-authored with her husband, the illustrator Montague MacLean Barstow.
Throughout her prolific career, she published hundreds of works spanning genres such as historical fiction, adventure, and detective novels.
In addition to her role as a novelist and playwright, she was noted for her versatility as a translator and painter.
