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.
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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
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
- The Laughing Cavalier (1914)
- The First Sir Percy (1921)
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
- Sir Percy Leads the Band (1936)
- The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1919) - short story collection
- I Will Repay (1906)
- The Elusive Pimpernel (1908)
- The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1933)
- Lord Tony's Wife (1917)
- El dorado (1913)
- Mam'zelle Guillotine (1940)
- The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1922)
- Sir Percy Hits Back (1927)
- Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1929) - short story collection
- A Child of the Revolution (1932)
- In the Rue Monge (1931) - short story
- Pimpernel and Rosemary (1924)
- The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World (1933) with Montague Barstow