21 Facts About Emma Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy, usually known as Baroness Orczy or to her family and friends as Emmuska Orczy, was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright.

Emma Orczy's 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.

Some of Emma Orczy's paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.

Emma Orczy's was the daughter of the composer Baron Felix Orczy de Orci and Countess Emma Wass de Szentegyed et Cege .

Emma Orczy's parents left their estate for Budapest in 1868, fearful of the threat of a peasant revolution.

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Emma Orczy attended West London School of Art and then the Heatherley School of Fine Art.

John Montague Emma Orczy-Barstow, their only child, was born on 25 February 1899.

Emma Orczy's started writing soon after his birth, but her first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks, was a failure.

Emma Orczy's did find a small following with a series of detective stories in the Royal Magazine.

Emma Orczy's had conceived the character while standing on a platform on the London Underground.

Emma Orczy's submitted her novelisation of the story under the same title to 12 publishers.

Emma Orczy went on to write over a dozen sequels featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, his family, and the other members of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, of which the first, I Will Repay, was the most popular.

Emma Orczy's wrote popular mystery fiction and many adventure romances.

Emma Orczy was a founding member of the Detection Club .

Emma Orczy's novels were racy, mannered melodramas and she favoured historical fiction.

Critic Mary Cadogan states, "Emma Orczy's books are highly wrought and intensely atmospheric".

Emma Orczy persuades his widowed sister-in-law to abet him in this plot, in which she unwittingly disgraces one of her long-lost sons and finds the other murdered by the villain.

Emma Orczy's work was so successful that she was able to buy a house in Monte Carlo, "Villa Bijou" at 19 Avenue de la Costa, which is where she spent World War Two.

Emma Orczy's was not able to return to London until after the war.

Emma Orczy was a firm believer in the superiority of the aristocracy, as well as being a supporter of British imperialism and militarism.

Emma Orczy's died in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on 12 November 1947.