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Baroness Orczy

(Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara Orczy)
Hungary   (1865 - 1947)
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Baroness Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865, the daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a landed aristocrat and well-known composer and conductor. Orczy moved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and Paris, where she was educated. She studied art in London and exhibited work in the Royal Academy. Orczy married Montagu Barstow and together they worked as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales. Orczy became famous in 1905 with the publication of 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 film and TV versions were later made. Orczy also wrote detective stories. She died in 1947.
 
Anthologies edited
Old Hungarian Fairy Tales (1895) (with Montagu Barstow)
Old Hungarian Fairy Tales
 
Non fiction
 
Anthologies containing stories by Baroness Orczy
The Great Book of ThrillersTen Tales of Detection
 
Short stories
Who Stole the Black Diamonds? (1905)
The Mysterious Death in Percy Street (1908)
The Regent's Park Murder (1908)
The Fenchurch Street Mystery



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