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Baroness Emmuska Orczy



Orczy, Baroness Emmuska (1865–47), Hungarian author best known for the French Revolution adventure novel The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905). Her 2 sequels to it did not achieve the acclaim of the original. She also wrote numerous short detective stories.



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