Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma ("Emmuska") Orczy (September 23 1865 – November 12 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.

Works

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• Old Hungarian Fairy Tales (1895) translator with Montague Barstow
• The Enchanted Cat (1895) translator with Montague Barstow
• Fairyland?s Beauty (1895) translator with Montague Barstow
• Uletka and the White Lizard (1895) translator with Montague Barstow
• The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899)
• In Mary's Reign (1901) later The Tangled Skein (1907)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (play 1903, novel 1905)
• The Sin of William Jackson (play, 1906)
• The Case of Miss Elliot (collection of mysteries, 1905)
• By the Gods Beloved (1905) later The Gates of Kamt (1907)
• I Will Repay (1906)
• A Son of the People (1906)
• Beau Brocade (1907)
• The Elusive Pimpernel (1908)
• Beau Brocade (play, 1908)
• The Old Man In the Corner (1909)
• The Nest of the Sparrowhawk (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909)
• Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910)
• Petticoat Government (1910)
• A True Woman (1911)
• The Duke's Wager (1911) play
• The Traitor (1912)
• The Good Patriots (1912)
• Fire in Stubble (1912)
• Meadowsweet (1912)
• Eldorado (1913)
• Unto Cæsar (1914)
• The Laughing Cavalier (1914)
• A Bride of the Plains (1915)
• The Bronze Eagle (1915)
• Leatherface (1916)
• Lord Tony's Wife (1917)
• A Sheaf of Bluebells (1917)
• Flower o' the Lily (1918)
• The Man in Grey (1918) stories
• The Legion of Honour (1918) play, adapted from A Sheaf of Bluebells
• His Majesty's Well-beloved (1919)
• The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1919)
• The First Sir Percy (1921)
• Castles in the Air (collection, 1921)
• The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1922)
• Nicolette: A Tale of Old Provence (1922)
• The Honourable Jim (1924)
• Pimpernel and Rosemary (1924)
• Les Beaux et les Dandys de Grand Siècles en Angleterre (1924)
• The Miser of Maida Vale (1925)
• A Question of Temptation (1925)
• Unravelled Knots (1926)
• The Celestial City (1926)
• Sir Percy Hits Back (1927)
• Skin o' My Tooth (collection, 1928)
• The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1929)
• Blue Eyes and Grey (1929)
• Marivosa (1930)
• In the Rue Monge (1931)
• A Joyous Adventure (1932)
• A Child of the Revolution (1932)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World (1933)
• The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1933)
• A Spy of Napoleon (1934)
• The Uncrowned King (1935)
• The Turbulent Duchess (1935)
• Sir Percy Leads the Band (1936)
• The Divine Folly (1937)
• No Greater Love (1938)
• The Gallant Pimpernel (1939) collection of four novels
• Mam'zelle Guillotine (1940)
• Pride of Race (1942)
• The Will-O'-The-Wisp (1947)
• Links in the Chain of Life (autobiography, 1947)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel Omnibus (1957)