WRITER

Emma Orczy

1865 - 1947

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Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma Magdalena Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci) (; 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947), usually known as Baroness Orczy (the name under which she was published) or to her family and friends as Emmuska 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. Opening in London's West End on 5 January 1905, The Scarlet Pimpernel became a favourite of British audiences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emma Orczy has received more than 279,761 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Emma Orczy is the 2,595th most popular writer (up from 2,889th in 2019), the 287th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 302nd in 2019) and the 29th most popular Hungarian Writer.

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Notable Works

The Scarlet Pimpernel
Classic Literature, Adventure and adventurers, Open Library Staff Picks
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) is a play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.
1900
The Elusive Pimpernel
Classic Literature, Fiction, Fiction in English
From the book:There was not even a reaction. On! ever on! in that wild, surging torrent; sowing the wind of anarchy, of terrorism, of lust of blood and hate, and reaping a hurricane of destruction and of horror. On! ever on! France, with Paris and all her children still rushes blindly, madly on; defies the powerful coalition, - Austria, England, Spain, Prussia, all joined together to stem the flow of carnage, - defies the Universe and defies God! Paris this September 1793! - or shall we call it Vendemiaire, Year I. of the Republic? - call it what we will! Paris! a city of bloodshed, of humanity in its lowest, most degraded aspect. France herself a gigantic self-devouring monster, her fairest cities destroyed, Lyons razed to the ground, Toulon, Marseilles, masses of blackened ruins, her bravest sons turned to lustful brutes or to abject cowards seeking safety at the cost of any humiliation.
1908
El Dorado
Classic Literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction
Baroness Orczy's classic adventure novel El Dorado is the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel and was first published in 1913. Set in 1794's Paris - which "despite the horrors that had stained her walls - has remained a city of pleasure, and the knife of the guillotine did scarce descend more often than did the drop-scenes on the stage."
1913
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Classic Literature, Fiction, History
1919
I Will Repay
Classic Literature, Fiction
1900
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
Classic Literature, Fiction
1909
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Classic Literature, Fiction, History
It was not, Heaven help us all! a very uncommon occurrence these days: a woman almost unsexed by misery, starvation, and the abnormal excitement engendered by daily spectacles of revenge and of cruelty. They were to be met with every day, round every street corner, these harridans, more terrible far than were the men.
1919
The Elusive Pimpernel (Scarlet Pimpernel)
Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, historical, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, fiction
From the book:There was not even a reaction. On! ever on! in that wild, surging torrent; sowing the wind of anarchy, of terrorism, of lust of blood and hate, and reaping a hurricane of destruction and of horror. On! ever on! France, with Paris and all her children still rushes blindly, madly on; defies the powerful coalition, - Austria, England, Spain, Prussia, all joined together to stem the flow of carnage, - defies the Universe and defies God! Paris this September 1793! - or shall we call it Vendemiaire, Year I. of the Republic? - call it what we will! Paris! a city of bloodshed, of humanity in its lowest, most degraded aspect. France herself a gigantic self-devouring monster, her fairest cities destroyed, Lyons razed to the ground, Toulon, Marseilles, masses of blackened ruins, her bravest sons turned to lustful brutes or to abject cowards seeking safety at the cost of any humiliation.
1908
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Classic Literature, Adventure and adventurers, Open Library Staff Picks
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) is a play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.
1900
El Dorado
Classic Literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction
Baroness Orczy's classic adventure novel El Dorado is the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel and was first published in 1913. Set in 1794's Paris - which "despite the horrors that had stained her walls - has remained a city of pleasure, and the knife of the guillotine did scarce descend more often than did the drop-scenes on the stage."
1913
I Will Repay
Classic Literature, Fiction, Fiction, action & adventure
1900
The Old Man in the Corner
Detective and mystery stories, Classic Literature, Detective and mystery stories, English
The Old Man (Bill Owen) sits in a cheap restaurant frequented by journalists and plays with a bit of string, which he ties into elaborate knots as he talks. Addressing himself to Polly Burton, a young newspaperwoman with whom he has struck up a slight acquaintance, he focuses upon crimes mentioned in the newspapers. He summarizes the circumstances, describes the personalities, and then sneeringly provides the correct solution which has evaded the police.
1908

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Emma Orczy ranks 2,595 out of 7,302. Before her are Penelope Fitzgerald, Menasseh Ben Israel, Idris Bitlisi, Konstantin Batyushkov, Boris Pilnyak, and Gerald Gardner. After her are Friedrich von Lütke, Édouard Glissant, Apion, Jónas Hallgrímsson, Mariana Alcoforado, and George Whitefield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Emma Orczy ranks 88. Before her are Max Heindel, Olga Boznańska, Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Max Nettlau, Louis Zutter, and Max Fabiani. After her are Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, Afonso, Duke of Porto, Princess Olga Paley, Tan Sitong, Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Maciej Sulkiewicz. Among people deceased in 1947, Emma Orczy ranks 95. Before her are Constantin Sănătescu, Lyuh Woon-hyung, Harukichi Hyakutake, Ivan Regen, Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt, and August Schmidhuber. After her are Richard Heidrich, Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Attilio Ferraris, Ferdinand Zecca, Ludwig Kübler, and Anton Schall.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Emma Orczy ranks 287 out of 1,077. Before her are Leó Weiner (1885), Géza Toldi (1909), Janus Pannonius (1434), Carl Flesch (1873), György Orth (1901), and Rudolf Bauer (1879). After her are László Mednyánszky (1852), Géza Gárdonyi (1863), Dezső Novák (1939), László Lovász (1948), Franz Alexander (1891), and Károly Grósz (1930).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Emma Orczy ranks 29. Before her are Miloš Crnjanski (1893), Péter Esterházy (1950), Rosika Schwimmer (1877), Anton Bernolák (1762), Frigyes Karinthy (1887), and Janus Pannonius (1434). After her are Géza Gárdonyi (1863), Béla Király (1912), Mihály Vörösmarty (1800), George Tabori (1914), László Polgár (1946), and Antal Szerb (1901).

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