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Baroness Emmuska Orczy
23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi was born in Tarnaörs, Heves County, Hungary, the daughter of composer Baron Felix Orczy and Countess Emma Wass. In 1868, fearing a potential peasant revolution, her parents left Hungary. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris before settling in London in 1880. Orczy attended West London School of Art and then Heatherley's School of Fine Art.
In 1894, she married illustrator Montague MacLean Barstow, whom she had met at art school. The couple had very little money, and Orczy started to work with her husband as a translator and an illustrator. In 1899, she had a child, and published her first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks.
In 1903, she and her husband coauthored her most famous work, The Scarlet Pimpernel. She went on to write over a dozen sequels to the novel. She also wrote mysteries and romances.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
79 editions - first published in 1900 Borrow -
El Dorado
25 editions - first published in 1913 Read -
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
25 editions - first published in 1919 Borrow -
Castles in the Air
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The Old Man in the Corner
13 editions - first published in 1908 Borrow -
The triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
12 editions - first published in 1922 -
Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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Lord Tony's Wife: an Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
9 editions - first published in 1917 -
Pimpernel and Rosemary
9 editions - first published in 1924 -
Sir Percy hits back: an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
7 editions - first published in 1927 -
Petticoat Government
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The Laughing Cavalier
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Mam'zelle Guillotine
6 editions - first published in 1950 -
Sir Percy leads the band
6 editions - first published in 1936 -
The man in grey: being episodes of the Chovan conspiracies in Normandy during the First Empire.
5 editions - first published in 1918 Read -
Beau Brocade: a romance.
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Leatherface: a tale of old Flanders
5 editions - first published in 1916 Read -
His Majesty's well-beloved: an episode in the life of Mr. Thomas Betterton as told by his friend John Honeywood
5 editions - first published in 1900 Read -
The Tangled Skein: a romance
4 editions - first published in 1907 Read -
The First Sir Percy: An Adventure of the Laughing Cavalier
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A son of the people: a romance of the Hungarian plains
4 editions - first published in 1906 Read -
Marivosa
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Unravelled knots
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By the gods beloved: a romance
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The Case of Miss Elliott
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Links in the chain of life
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Old Hungarian fairy tales
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A true woman
3 editions - first published in 1911 Read -
The man in the corner
3 editions - first published in 1909 Read -
The Emperor's candlesticks
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Meadowsweet
3 editions - first published in 1912 Read -
A joyous adventure
2 editions - first published in 1932 -
Unto Caesar
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The Nest of the Sparrowhawk (A Romance of The XVIIth Century)
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The Honourable Jim: a romance
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A sheaf of bluebells
2 editions - first published in 1917 Read -
Pride of race
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Petticoat rule
2 editions - first published in 1910 Read -
Nicolette: a tale of old Provence
2 editions - first published in 1922 Read -
The gates of Kamt
2 editions - first published in 1907 Read -
The Uncrowned King: a true romance of the '60's now first put on record by Baroness Orczy.
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A Spy of Napoleon
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Blue Eyes and Gray
2 editions - first published in 1929 -
I Will Repay: A Romance
2 editions - first published in 1906 Read -
Le mouron rouge, 1792
2 editions - first published in 1913 Read -
The celestial city
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The turbulent duchess (H. R. H. Madame la Duchesse de Berri)
2 editions - first published in 1935 -
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Book 1 of The Scarlet Pimpernel Series)
2 editions - first published in 2006 -
Fire in Stubble
1 edition - first published in 1912 -
I Will Repay - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
Mam'Zelle Guillotine (Scarlet Pimpernel Series)
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
The principal witness
1 edition - first published in 1919 -
Blue eyes and grey
1 edition - first published in 1928 -
Pilot Scarlet Pimpernel Lmp
1 edition - first published in 1974 -
The divine folly
1 edition - first published in 1937 -
The First Sir Percy (AN ADVENTURE OF THE LAUGHING CAVALIER)
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
The Elusive Pimpernel (Scarlet Pimpernel)
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Hgr C the Scarlet Pimpernel
1 edition - first published in 1978 -
The Turbulent Duchess
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Tangerka z Solferino
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
The Scarlet Pimpernel/Cassette (Cdl5 1647)
1 edition - first published in 1983 -
Unto Cæsar
1 edition - first published in 1914 Read -
Scarlet Pimpernel and Other Tales
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
A bride of the plains
1 edition - first published in 1915 Read -
How Jean-Pierre met the Scarlet Pimpernel
1 edition - first published in 1917 -
Sir Percy Leads the Band (The Scarlet Pimpernel Series)
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Will-o'-the-wisp
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Le mouron rouge: 1792
1 edition - first published in 1913 Read -
Flower o' the lily: a romance of old Cambray
1 edition - first published in 1919 -
In Mary's reign
1 edition - first published in 1907 Read -
The First Sir Percy (Fiction/Mystery & Detective)
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
The Scarlet Pimpernel Readalong
1 edition - first published in 1994 -
The Duffield Peerage Case
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
La Pimpinela Escarlata
1 edition - first published in 1900 -
The After House
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
Scarlet Pimpernel Omnibus
1 edition - first published in 1971 -
The Elusive Pimpernel
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
Lady Molly Of Scotland Yard
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
SCARLET PIMPERNEL, THE
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Scarlet Pimpernel, The
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The York Mystery
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A child of the revolution
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The noble rogue: a cavalier's romance
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The heart of a woman
1 edition - first published in 1911 Read -
Fenchurch Street Mystery
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The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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Szkarłatny Pimpernel
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I Will Repay!
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Szkarłatny Pimpernel
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I Will Repay
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The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Szkarłatny Pimpernel
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Szkarłatny Pimpernel
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Szkarłatny Pimpernel
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Szkarłatny Pimpernel
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Szkarłatny Pimpernel
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History Created April 1, 2008 · 10 revisions
| August 26, 2011 | Edited by Lee Spencer | merge authors |
| April 11, 2011 | Edited by karen hammond | changed year fron 1968 to 1868 |
| December 8, 2010 | Edited by Alan Millar | merge authors |
| November 2, 2010 | Edited by caf21 | Edited alternate name |
| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | initial import |