Orczy, Emmuska (Magdalena Rosalia Marie Josepha Barbara), Baroness
- Orczy, Emmuska (Magdalena Rosalia Marie Josepha Barbara), Baroness
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born Sept. 23, 1865, Tarnaörs, Hung.
died Nov. 12, 1947, London, Eng.
Hungarian-born British novelist.
The daughter of a noted musician, she was educated in Brussels and Paris and studied art in London. She became famous as the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905), a swashbuckling adventure set in the era of the French Revolution. Her sequels did not match its great popular success. She also wrote detective stories.
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