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Emma Orczy

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Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright (1865-1947)

United KingdomWritersLived 1865 to 1947 · aged 82
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Baroness Emma Magdalena Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci, usually known as Baroness Orczy, was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright.

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H.M. Brock's cover of Baroness Orczy's The Old Man in the Corner (popular edition, Greening & Co., London, 1910).H.M. Brock's cover of Baroness Orczy's The Old Man in the Corner (popular edition, Greening & Co., London, 1910).The Laughing Cavalier was serialised in Adventure in 1914The Laughing Cavalier was serialised in Adventure in 1914

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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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United Kingdom
Category
Writers
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Writer / Author
Status
deceased
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Lived 1865 to 1947 · aged 82
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30 languages

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