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 283,688 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Emma Orczy is the 2,596th 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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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Emma Orczy ranks 2,596 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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