Montagu Barstow

Emma, Baroness Orczy , was married in London to Montagu Barstow , a clergyman's son, whom she had met at Heatherley's school of art.

Montagu Barstow died, or as Emma, Baroness Orczy , put it, the light went out of my life. My darling passed away and I was left in darkness and alone.

A stage version of Emma, Baroness Orczy 's The Scarlet Pimpernel (written by herself and her husband ) was accepted for production by Fred Terry and his wife Julia Neilson to follow the successful Sweet...

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...

Emma, Baroness Orczy , published a volume of translated Old Hungarian Fairy Tales, which her husband illustrated.

The stage version of EBO 's The Scarlet Pimpernel, written by herself and her husband, Montagu Barstow , opened in London, where despite war and bombing it was highly popular with audiences.

EBO said that Friday the thirteenth was always a lucky date for her. A trial staging in Nottingham was, said the author later, phenomenally successful (members of audience stayed in the theatre clapping and cheering...