Emma, Baroness Orczy
, simply revelled in her single and very successful plunge out of fiction into historical biography in The Turbulent Duchess, H.R.H. Madame la Duchesse de Berri.
Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. Links in the Chain of Life. Hutchinson, 1947.
The story concerns the life of Duchesse de Berry
and begins with a note: Writers of historical fiction are, for the most part, thieves. Many of the following pages have been stolen . ....