Baroness Orczy (1865–1947)
Author of The Scarlet Pimpernel
About the Author
Image credit: Baroness Emma Orczy de Orczi (1865–1947) by Bassano Ltd.
Series
Works by Baroness Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Great Reads) 20 copies
Delphi Collected Works of Baroness Emma Orczy US (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Six Book 24) (2016) 12 copies
Female Sleuths Megapack: Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, Loveday Brooke, and Amelia Butterworth (2014) — Contributor — 12 copies
A gay adventurer: Being the biography of Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., known as the Scarlet Pimpernel (1935) 6 copies
The Scarlet Pimpernel Anthology Volume I: The Scarlet Pimpernel, I Will Repay and The Elusive Pimpernel (Volume 1) (2012) 6 copies
British Mystery Multipack Volume 2 - Lady Audley's Secret, The Four Just Men and The Ninescore Mystery (Illustrated) (2014) 6 copies
Scarlet Pimpernel The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel The Elusive Pimpernel The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (4… (2013) 6 copies
The Scarlet Pimpernel 6 copies
Old Man in the Corner: The Old Man in the Corner / The Case of Miss Elliott / The Glasgow Mystery (2010) 5 copies
The Complete Escapades of The Scarlet Pimpernel-Volume 1: The Scarlet Pimpernel & I Will Repay (2018) 3 copies
A Scarlet Pimpernel Collection: The Scarlet Pimpernel, I Will Repay, The Elusive Pimpernel, The League of the Scarlet… (2021) 3 copies
The Scarlet Pimpernel Anthology: Eldorado, Lord Tony's Wife and The League of The Scarlet Pimpernel (2012) 3 copies
The Chief's Way 2 copies
The Scarlet Pimpernel 2 copies
British Mystery Multipacks Volume 7 – The Detectives: Father Brown, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, The Old Man in… (2015) 2 copies
Sir Percy Explains [Short Story] 2 copies
Works of Baroness Emmuska Orczy. Incl: The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Old Man In the Corner, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard,… (2009) 2 copies
The Complete Escapades of The Scarlet Pimpernel-Volume 2: The Elusive Pimpernel & Eldorado (2018) 2 copies
De roode Pimpernel overwint 2 copies
Obras selectas. Pinpinela escarlata. Mia será la venganza. Eldorado. El desquite de sir Percy (1976) 2 copies
De roode Pimpernel faalt niet 2 copies
The Brighton Mystery 2 copies
The Gallant Pimpernel - Four Complete Novels: Lord Tony's Wife, The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Leads… (1939) 2 copies
I Will Repay and Other Works by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2009) 1 copy
De svarta diamanterna m.fl. detektivhistorier : Bemynd. övers. från engelskan av Oscar Nachman 1 copy
The Little Doctor 1 copy
In the Tiger's Den 1 copy
The Lure of the Chateau 1 copy
Fly-By-Night 1 copy
The Stranger From Paris 1 copy
Den røde Pimpernel I-II 1 copy
Kättemaks : romaan 1 copy
The Fordwych Castle Mystery 1 copy
The Principal Witness 1 copy
The Emperor's Candlesticks 1 copy
A Bride of the Plains 1 copy
Červený Bedrník. Díl l 1 copy
Den røde pimpernel, Bind 2 1 copy
Den røde pimpernel, Bind 1 1 copy
The Ninescore Mystery 1 copy
The Dublin Mystery 1 copy
The Edinburg Mystery 1 copy
The Liverpool Mystery 1 copy
The Glasgow Mystery 1 copy
Yo castigaré 1 copy
Four Complete Novels 1 copy
The Elusive Pimpernell 1 copy
De man in 't grijs 1 copy
The Collected Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel: Omnibus Edition of Sir Percy's Adventures (Illustrated) (2021) 1 copy
Scarlet Pimpernel Classics : the Scarlet Pimpernel, the Elusive Pimpernel, the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, I Will… (2005) 1 copy
The Complete Escapades of The Scarlet Pimpernel: Volume 8-Pimpernel and Rosemary & Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (2019) 1 copy
Scarlet Pimpernel Vol 6 1 copy
Scarlet Pimpernel Vol 5 1 copy
Een dame in de val lokken 1 copy
Diplomati og Kærlighed 1 copy
Voto di sangue 1 copy
The Traitor [Short Story] 1 copy
The Scarlet Pimpernel Series – All 35 Titles in One Edition: Historical Action-Adventure Classics, Including The… (2018) 1 copy
The Scarlet Pimpernel - 1934 1 copy
The Early Adventures of Scarlet Pimpernel - 4 Books in One Edition: Scarlet Pimpernel, The Elusive Pimpernel, The… (2017) 1 copy
A Question of Temptation 1 copy
Una alegre aventura 1 copy
The Red Carnation 1 copy
SIR PERCY BLAKENEY - FIC ORC 1 copy
Associated Works
Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (1997) — Contributor — 182 copies
Crime On Her Mind: Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties (1975) — Contributor — 103 copies
In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers, 1850-1917 (2018) — Contributor — 89 copies
The Big Book of Swashbuckling Adventure: Classic Tales of Dashing Heroes, Dastardly Villains, and Daring Escapes (2014) — Contributor — 54 copies
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Contributor — 52 copies
Grande Dames of Detection: Two Centuries of Sleuthing Stories by the Gentle Sex (1973) — Contributor — 32 copies
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914 (2019) — Contributor — 24 copies
The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 2: From Salome to Edgar Allan Poe to The Silence of the Lambs (2021) — Contributor — 14 copies
British Mystery Megapack Volume 3: The Mysterious Affair At Styles, The Secret Agent, The Man Who Would Be King, A… (2014) 12 copies
Mitt skattkammer. b.9 Gjennom tidene — Contributor — 9 copies
SLEUTHS: TWENTY-THREE GREAT DETECTIVES OF FICTION AND THEIR BEST STORIES. (1931) — Contributor — 6 copies
Die schönsten Bücher für junge Leser — Scarlet Pimpernel | Der letzte Mohikaner | Knulp | Irgendwo in Tibet (1973) — Contributor — 3 copies
Detektivhistorier fra Sherlock Holmes til Hercule Poirot — Contributor — 3 copies
The Detective in Fiction: A Posse of Eight — Contributor — 2 copies
Classic Crime Stories: 13 Tales from Edgar Allan Poe to Lawrence Block (2007) — Contributor — 2 copies
The Scarlet Pimpernel — Original text — 1 copy
Stories for girls — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Baroness Orczy
- Other names
- Orczy, Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josephina Barbara
Orczy Barstow, Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála, Baroness - Birthdate
- 1865-09-23
- Date of death
- 1947-11-12
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Hungary (birth)
UK (naturalized, 1910) - Birthplace
- Tanaörs, Hungary
- Place of death
- Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
Budapest, Hungary
Brussels, Belgium
Paris, France
Monte Carlo, Monaco - Education
- West London School of Art
Heatherley's School of Fine Art - Occupations
- artist
illustrator
novelist
translator
aristocrat - Relationships
- Korda, Alexander (producer)
- Organizations
- Detection Club
- Short biography
- Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josephina Barbara, Baroness Orczy, known as Emmuska, was born in Hungary, the daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a landed aristocrat and well-known composer and conductor, and his wife Countess Emma Wass. She was educated in Brussels, Paris, and London, and exhibited her art work in the Royal Academy. In 1894, she married Montagu Barstow, a British clergyman and artist, and they worked together as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales. Orczy became famous in 1905 with the publication of her novel The Scarlet Pimpernel (originally a play co-written with her husband). Its background of the French Revolution and swashbuckling hero, Sir Percy Blakeney, was to prove immensely popular. Sequel books followed and numerous film and TV versions have been made with the first in 1934, produced by Alexander Korda, another Hungarian. Baroness Orczy also wrote detective and adventure stories. She inherited her family’s estate of Tarna-Ors in Hungary but continued to live in England until the end of World War I, when she and her husband settled in Monte Carlo.
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- Works
- 195
- Also by
- 64
- Members
- 12,715
- Popularity
- #1,841
- Rating
- 3.9
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- 306
- ISBNs
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I'm quite surprised this book appears on so many classic romance lists, because I'm not even sure if it was a romance.
It's a story of beautiful Marguerite, called the most intelligent woman in Europe, who married a very stupid, but extremely rich man, Sir Percy Blakeney. Their marriage is not a happy one, they are disappointed in one another and they hardly even speak. Marguerite is blackmailed into helping a French agent to discover the identity of a mysterious English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel. Then, feeling guilty about what she'd done, she goes to France to save the great man.
I had two main problems with this book: first, most of the plot didn't make any sense whatsoever. Why did the Pimpernel's people keep writing notes to one another, why didn't they simply talk? They were oficially friends, why didn't they visit each other? All this plot at the ball was stupid. Next - Marguerite went to France to help her hero and she did absolutely nothing, she didn't even try to help the Pimpernel. The French agent was trying to catch a dangerous, elusive enemy - so he rented the slowest possible carriage, which Margueritecan could easily follow on foot? It is all so silly and pointless, that I kept rolling my eyes. The second problem was that the book was generally quite boring. It felt much longer than it really was.
I'm really sorry that we didn't get Sir Percy's perspective, I'm sure it would make this book much more interesting and deeper.
Generally, I didn't enjoy this book very much, but I'm glad I finally read it.
(I first published this review here: https://dominikasreadingchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-scarlet-pimpernel-by-...… (more)