Emmuska Baroness Orczy

23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947

Standard Name: Orczy, Emmuska,,, Baroness

Birth Name: Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara Orczy

Titled: Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara, Baroness Orczy

Self-constructed Name: Emmuska, Baroness Orczy

Married Name: Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara Barstow

EBO , a best-selling novelist of the early twentieth century, is best-known for The Scarlet Pimpernel, her romance of aristocrats during the French Revolution. This was a play before it was a novel, and according to its author provoked a polarised response, with ecstatic audiences and fiercely disapproving critics. Apart from almost a dozen Scarlet Pimpernel sequels, she published many other historical romances, a few thrillers with modern settings, one historial biography, and her memoirs. Her short stories include a pioneering volume about a woman detective, who, as an amateur relying on her intelligence, intuition, and feminine guile, regularly out-performs her male professional associates.

Full profile

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Education	Julia O'Faolain	JOF 's mother used to tell her suspense-driven fairy-tales, most of which were later published. O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber, 2014. 6 When Julia was very young they gave her nightmares. O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber, 2014. 2-3 Her father agreed to give her The Child's...
Friends, Associates	Angela Brazil	They continued for years to correspond intermittently, and Stopes once visited Brazil in Coventry. During AB 's brief career as an art student, she had met Baroness Orczy . Freeman, Gillian. The Schoolgirl Ethic: The Life and Work of Angela Brazil. Allen Lane, 1976. 76, 104, 132 She and her...
Intertextuality and Influence	Bryony Lavery	The two women are quickly transported into the romance, where Lady Harriet Helstone is the rich and lovely, ardent and wilful scion of the hard-drinking, hard-riding, rakehelly Helstones, Lavery, Bryony. Plays, 1. Methuen Drama, 1998. 89 and Molly is a simple village...
Intertextuality and Influence	Margery Allingham	This novel introduced the series detective Albert Campion, whose gentlemanly manner became MA 's hallmark. In this novel he remains on the sidelines of the story as a privileged and apparently brainless young man who...
Intertextuality and Influence	Margery Allingham	Campion later developed more complexity and depth—partly as a result of war experiences—and became a professional detective. But he remained unhardened, an anomaly in his profession, in something the manner of the later Inspector Alleyn...
Intertextuality and Influence	Dorothy L. Sayers	Lord Peter Wimsey appeared in DLS 's first detective novel, written frankly out of a desire to make money. She observed that there is a market for detective literature if one can get in and...
Occupation	Muriel Box	Muriel's mother surprised her by sympathising with her desire to get into pictures, while her father saw nothing wrong with being a typist. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin, 1974. 59 She began working in films as a teenage extra in The...
Publishing	Edith Mary Moore	Her full name (Edith Mary Croucher Moore) appears in connection with this book in OCLC WorldCat though not on its title-page. Cassell advertised it in the TLS repeatedly until early June, OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (14 January 1909): 11; (3 June 1909): 205; (10 June 1909): 213
Publishing	Mollie Panter-Downes	The book appeared in volume form the same year, and went through eight editions in eighteen months. It was advertised on the sides of London buses Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. (as Orczy 's play The Scarlet Pimpernel had been...
Reception	Ethel Lilian Voynich	The Gadfly has been compared to Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter, 1850, for its picture of theocratic oppression, and to Emma, Baroness Orczy 's The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1905, as adventure writing. Gray, Anne, and Pam Blevins. The World of Women in Classical Music. WordWorld Publications, 2007, pp. 876-7. 877
Residence	Sybille Bedford	In late June 1935 SB was back in Sanary, soothed by an inner purring Bedford, Sybille. Quicksands. Counterpoint, 2005. 339 which told her she had solved the problems of her life. Next year, however, the Spanish Civil War broke...
Textual Production	Ngaio Marsh	NM 's mother played the witch, and her grandfather Edward William Seager made a present to her of two theatrical treasures: a book entitled Actors of the [Nineteenth] Century by Frederic White and a shirt...
Textual Production	Mary Wesley	As a small child Mary Farmar (later MW ) spent hours telling herself stories set in particular locations derived from her reading of the Baroness Orczy , Robert Louis Stevenson , and Frederick Marryat ...
Textual Production	Una Troubridge	UT wrote a number of autobiographical essays, which are unpublished and mostly undated. The undated ones include On Being Ill, My Pets, The Dancing, My Teachers, A London Child, I...
Textual Production	Dorothy L. Sayers	Between 1928 and 1934, DLS edited three volumes under the series title Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror. Her introductions to these collections offered a scholarly history of the genre of detective...

Timeline

7 November 1885

The last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was driven in Eagle Pass, British Columbia, completing the transcontinental railway.

Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.

II: 483

Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.

836

12 March 1903

London's New Theatre (re-named in 1973 the Albery and from June 2006 renamed again the Noel Coward Theatre), built by architect W. G. R. Sprague back to back to Wyndham's Theatre , first opened its doors.

“The Albery Theatre (June 2006 renamed The Noel Coward Theatre)”. thisistheatre.com.

Texts

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. A Bride of the Plains. Hutchinson, 1915.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. A Child of the Revolution. Cassell, 1932.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. A Son of the People. Greening, 1906.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. A Spy of Napoleon. Hodder and Stoughton, 1934.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. Blue Eyes and Grey. Hodder and Stoughton, 1928.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. By the Gods Beloved. Greening, 1905.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. Castles in the Air. Cassell, 1921.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness, and Cyrus Cuneo. Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. Cassell, 1910.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. Arno Press, 1976.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. Links in the Chain of Life. Hutchinson, 1947.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. No Greater Love. Hodder and Stoughton, 1938.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. Petticoat Government. Hutchinson, 1910.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. Pimpernel and Rosemary. Cassell, 1924.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. The Celestial City. Hodder and Stoughton, 1926.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. The Emperor’s Candlesticks. C. Arthur Pearson, 1899.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. The Laughing Cavalier. Hodder and Stoughton, 1914.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk. Greening, 1909, http://PR 6029 R27 N46 1909 HSS.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. The Scarlet Pimpernel. Greening, 1905.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. The Tangled Skein. Greening, 1907.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. The Turbulent Duchess. Hodder and Stoughton, 1935.

Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. Unto Caesar. Hodder and Stoughton, 1914.