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About Emma Orczy
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.
Everything about Emma Orczy →- Occupation
- translator, novelist, children's writer, writer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, Hungary
- Born
- September 23, 1865, September 27, 1865
- Died
- November 12, 1947