Emmuska Orczy

Emmuska Orczy (1865 - 1947), full name Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci, also known as Baroness Emma Orczy or simply Baroness Orczy (the name under which she was published) or to her family and friends as Emmuska Orczy, was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save French aristocrats from "Madame Guillotine" during the French Revolution, establishing the "hero with a secret identity" in popular culture.

Wisdom & Quotes

• We seek him here, we seek him there,

Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven?
Is he in hell?
That demmed, elusive Pimperne!
- The Scarlet Pimpernel

Bernard Berenson