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.

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...

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...

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...

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