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description: PBaroness, (Emusca/Emmuska/Emma Magdalena Rosalia Marie Josepha Barbara) Orczy, Mrs Barstow (1865-1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. Her parents left Hungary in 1868, fearful of the threat of a peasant revolution. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris, where Emma studied music without success. Finally, in 1880, the family moved to London where they lodged with their countryman Francis Pichler. In 1903, she and her husband, Montague MaClean Barstow, wrote a play based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., who rescued French aristocrats from the French revolution#58; The Scarlet Pimpernel. She went on to write over a dozen sequels featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, his family, and the other members of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, of which the first, I Will Repay (1906), was the most popular. The last Pimpernel book, Mam'zelle Guillotine, was published in 1940. She also wrote popular mystery fiction and many adventure romances.
language: English
title: Lord Tony's Wife
titlecomplete: Lord Tony's Wife
characters: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, Mark Van Rycke, William of Orange, Donna Leonora de Vargas, Juan de Vargas
genres: Fiction, Historical, France, Adventure, Thriller, Romance, French Revolution, Classics, Literature, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 530
places: Mons, Brussels
series: The Scarlet Pimpernel (publication order), The Scarlet Pimpernel (chronological order)
publisher: Buccaneer Books