Emmuska, Baroness Orczy

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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.

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Travel Elinor Glyn
During her adolescence EG travelled many times to Paris. Like her contemporary Baroness Orczy she loved its rich history of aristocracy rather than that of revolution.
Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton.
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Travel Elinor Glyn
In 1931 EG visited Hungary, where she stayed with the Hungarian Minister in London, Baron Rubido-Zichy , and his wife. There she noted the continuance of a kind of feudal system, whose handling of...

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