Baroness Orczy  

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Baroness Orczy (1865 – 1947) 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 ill-fated French royalty from "Madame Guillotine" during the French revolution, establishing the "hero with a secret identity" into popular culture.

Works

Translations

• Old Hungarian Fairy Tales (1895) translator with Montague Barstow
• Uletka and the White Lizard, Volume 1 of ‘The Queen Mab Series of Fairy Tales (1895) translator with Montague Barstow
• The Enchanted Cat, Volume 2 of ‘The Queen Mab Series of Fairy Tales’ 1895) translator with Montague Barstow
• Fairyland's Beauty, Volume 3 of ‘The Queen Mab Series of Fairy Tales’ (1895) translator with Montague Barstow

Plays

• The Scarlet Pimpernel (1903) with Montague Barstow, as ‘Orczy-Barstow’
• The Sin of William Jackson (1906) with Montague Barstow
• Beau Brocade (1908) with Montague Barstow. Written in 1905
• ‘’The Whip’’. With Montague Barstow
• The Duke's Wager (1911)
• The Legion of Honour (1918), adapted from A Sheaf of Bluebells

[[File:Cover of Baroness Orczy's THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER, popular edition, Greening & Co., Ltd., London, 1910.jpg|thumbnail|H.M. Brock's cover of Baroness Orczy's The Old Man in the Corner (popular edition, Greening & Co., London, 1910).]] [[File:Adventure v08 n01.jpg|thumb|right|The Laughing Cavalier was serialised in Adventure in 1914]]

Short story collections

The Man in The Corner Series

• The Case of Miss Elliott (1905)
• The Old Man in the Corner (1909)
• Unravelled Knots (1925)

Scarlet Pimpernel Series

• The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1919)
• Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1929)

Other short story books

• Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910)
• The Man in Grey (1918)
• Castles in the Air (1921)
• Skin o' My Tooth (1928)

Novels

• The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899)
• In Mary's Reign (1901) later The Tangled Skein (1907)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• By the Gods Beloved (1905) later released in the US as The Gates of Kamt (1907)
• A Son of the People (1906)
• I Will Repay (1906) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• ‘’A Tangled Skein’’
• Beau Brocade (1907)
• The Elusive Pimpernel (1908) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• The Nest of the Sparrowhawk (1909). Serialised, The Imp Magazine, 1909
• Petticoat Government (1910). Serialised in The Queen Newspaper, 1909, and previously released as A Ruler of Princes (1909), also known as Petticoat Rule (1910)
• A True Woman (1911)
• The Good Patriots (1912)
• Fire in Stubble (1912). Serialised, John Bull, 1911
• Meadowsweet (1912). Serialised, The Queen Newspaper, 1912
• Eldorado (1913) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Unto Cæsar (1914). Serialised, The Woman at Home, 1913
• The Laughing Cavalier (1914) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• A Bride of the Plains (1915)
• The Bronze Eagle (1915)
• Leatherface (1916)
• Lord Tony's Wife (1917) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• A Sheaf of Bluebells (1917)
• Flower o' the Lily (1918)
• His Majesty's Well-beloved (1919)
• The First Sir Percy (1921) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1922) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Nicolette: A Tale of Old Provence (1922)
• The Honourable Jim (1924)
• Pimpernel and Rosemary (1924) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Les Beaux et les Dandys de Grand Siècles en Angleterre (1924)
• The Miser of Maida Vale (1925)
• A Question of Temptation (1925)
• The Celestial City (1926)
• Sir Percy Hits Back (1927) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Blue Eyes and Grey (1928)
• Marivosa (1930)
• A Joyous Adventure (1932)
• A Child of the Revolution (1932) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World (1933) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1933) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• A Spy of Napoleon (1934)
• The Uncrowned King (1935)
• The Turbulent Duchess (1935)
• Sir Percy Leads the Band (1936) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• The Divine Folly (1937)
• No Greater Love (1938)
• Mam'zelle Guillotine (1940) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Pride of Race (1942)
• The Will-O'-The-Wisp (1947)

Short Stories

• "The Red Carnation" (First published in Pearson’s Magazine, June 1898, reprinted in Everybody's Magazine, June 1900)
• The Traitor (1898)
• Juliette (1899)
• Number 187 (1899)
• The Trappists Vow (1899)
• The Revenge of Ur-Tasen (1900)
• The Murder in Saltashe Woods Windsor Magazine, June 1903 (Skin o’ My Tooth)
• The Case of the Polish Prince Windsor Magazine, July 1903 (Skin o’ My Tooth)
• The Case of Major Gibson Windsor Magazine, August 1903 (Skin o’ My Tooth)
• The Duffield Peerage Case Windsor Magazine, September 1903 (Skin o’ My Tooth)
• The Case of Mrs. Norris Windsor Magazine, October 1903 (Skin o’ My Tooth)
• The Murton-Braby Murder Windsor Magazine, November 1903 (Skin o’ My Tooth)
• The Traitor Cassell’s Magazine of Fiction, May 1912. Collected in The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Out of the Jaws of Death Princess Mary’s Gift Book, 1914. Collected in The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• A Fine Bit of Work The New Magazine, Christmas 1914. Collected in The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• In the Rue Monge (1931) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

Omnibus editions

• The Scarlet Pimpernel etc. (1930) collection of four novels
• The Gallant Pimpernel (1939) collection of four novels
• The Scarlet Pimpernel Omnibus (1957) collection of four novels

Non-fiction

• ‘’If I Were a Millionaire’’. Young Woman, August 1909
• Links in the Chain of Life (autobiography, 1947)

The Scarlet Pimpernel Chronology

1. The Laughing Cavalier (1914)
2. The First Sir Percy (1921)
3. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
4. Sir Percy Leads the Band (1936)
5. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1919) - short story collection
6. I Will Repay (1906)
7. The Elusive Pimpernel (1908)
8. The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1933)
9. Lord Tony's Wife (1917)
10. El dorado (1913)
11. Mam'zelle Guillotine (1940)
12. The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1922)
13. Sir Percy Hits Back (1927)
14. Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1929) - short story collection
15. A Child of the Revolution (1932)
16. In the Rue Monge (1931) - short story
17. Pimpernel and Rosemary (1924)
18. The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World (1933) with Montague Barstow