Her very first fiction, rejected with a kind message of encouragement from Mr Everett
of C. Arthur Pearson
, later became the germ of her successful first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks. She had hit...
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Emmuska Baroness Orczy
She tells her fascinating story with some garrulity, repetitions, and rehearsing of the foolish questions which, she says, admiring readers always ask her. But she brings remembered scenes to life, whether a carnival on the...
