Author: Emma Orczy
Alternate names: Emmuska Orczy; Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara Orczy; Baronesa de Orczy Emmuska Orczy; Baroness Baroness Orczy; Baroness Emma Baroness Emma Orczy; Baroness Emma Orczy; Baroness Emmuska Baroness Emmuska Orczy; Baroness Emmuska Orczy; Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy; Baroness ORCZY; Baroness Orczy; Baronne Emmuska Orczy; Emma Emma Orczy; Emmauska Orczy; Emmuska Baroness Orczy; Emmuska Baroness Orczy de Orczi; Emmuska ORCZY; Emmuska Orczy (Baroness); Emmuska Orczy Baroness Orczy; Emmuska Orczy Orczy; Emmuska Orczy Orczy (Baroness); ORCZY (Baroness); Orczy; The Elusive Pimpernel Illustrated Orczy; Emma Orczy Orczy; Orczy Baroness; B. E. Orczy Orczy; BARONESS ORCZY; ORCZY Baronne; Orczy, Emmuska Orczy Baroness; Broness Orczy; Baronowa Orczy; (Baroness) ORCZY; Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness; Emmuska Emmuska Orczy; BaronessEmmuska Orczy; Baroness x Orczy; Orczy, Emmuska Orczy Baronese; Baronesa de Orczy; Baroness Orczy Emmuska; baroness orczy; Barones Orczy; Baroness orczy; Baoness orczy; Baroness_Emma Orczy_; Emmuska Orczu; Baroness de Orczi; Emmuska de Orczi
Title: Baroness
Born: 23 September 1865
Died: 12 November 1947
Bio: Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi was born in Tarnaörs, Heves County, Hungary, the daughter of composer Baron Felix Orczy and Countess Emma Wass. In 1868, fearing a potential peasant revolution, her parents left Hungary. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris before settling in London in 1880. Orczy attended West London School of Art and then Heatherley's School of Fine Art.

In 1894, she married illustrator Montague MacLean Barstow, whom she had met at art school. The couple had very little money, and Orczy started to work with her husband as a translator and an illustrator. In 1899, she had a child, and published her first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks.

In 1903, she and her husband coauthored her most famous work, The Scarlet Pimpernel. She went on to write over a dozen sequels to the novel.

She also created a number of memorable detectives: Lady Molly Robertson-Kirk of Scotland Yard, who heads the "Female Department" (her cases are collected in Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, 1910); Monsieur Fernand, a Napoleonic-era secret agent (The Man in Grey, 1918); and Patrick Mulligan, a shady attorney (Skin o' My Tooth, 1928). Her greatest detective was the Old Man in the Corner, probably the first of the "armchair" detectives. He sits in a chair in a London tea shop, unraveling knots and intricate cases brought to him by Polly Burton, a young reporter. Many of these were later collected in The Old Man in the Corner (1909). [Leslie S. Klinger, In the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes (2011)]