Died 1947-11-12.
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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" dur…
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culture · Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright (1865–1947) · translator · novelist · children's writer · writer · playwright · short story writer · crime fiction writer · painter · also Emma Orczy, Baroness Orczy, Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci, Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozalia Maria Jozefa Borbala Orczy de Orci, Emmuska Orczy, Emma Baroness von Orczy
Born 23 September 1865 · Died 12 November 1947 · Q234530
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1947· 2 entries
“Or-tsey. Emmuska—a diminutive meaning”
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1903· 1 entry
And her husband wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel, a play based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart
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1880· 1 entry
At age 14, Emma and her family moved to London, England where they lodged with fellow Hungarian expatriate Francis Pichler at 162 Great Portland Street
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1868· 1 entry
Fearful of the threat of a peasant revolution
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1865· 1 entry
Born 1865-09-23.
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