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    Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma Magdalena Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci) (/ˈɔːrtsiː/; 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947), usually...
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    The Scarlet Pimpernel (category Novels by Baroness Emma Orczy)
    Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title...
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  • Orczi, hu:Orczy család), Hungarian nobility originating from Orci Lőrinc Orczy (hu:Orczy Lőrinc), poet Béla Orczy (1822–1917), politician Emma Orczy (Baroness...
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    Arthur Morrison, Hugh Walpole, John Rhode, Jessie Rickard, Baroness Emma Orczy, R. Austin Freeman, G. D. H. Cole, Margaret Cole, E. C. Bentley, Henry...
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    identity. In 1903 The Scarlet Pimpernel, protagonist of the novels by Emma Orczy, set the prototype. Sir Percy poses as an overdressed and empty-headed...
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  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982 film) (category Films based on works by Emma Orczy)
    novels The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) and Eldorado (1913) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, and stars Anthony Andrews as Sir Percy Blakeney/the Scarlet Pimpernel,...
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  • achieve something; a close call. Skin o' My Tooth – 1928 book by Baroness Emma Orczy in which the phrase is a nickname of the main character, a lawyer; the...
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    The group that he founded (with prominent members being the authors Emma Orczy and Mary Augusta Ward) was known as the White Feather Brigade or the Order...
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    well-known authors such as Alexandre Dumas, Rafael Sabatini, Baroness Emma Orczy, Sir Walter Scott, Johnston McCulley, and Edmond Rostand. Swashbucklers...
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    (1819). Frances Trollope wrote Petticoat Government: A Novel in 1850. Emma Orczy wrote Petticoat Government, another novel, in 1911. G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936)...
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  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934 film) (category Films based on works by Emma Orczy)
    Massey. Based on the 1905 play by Baroness Orczy and Montagu Barstow and the classic 1905 adventure novel by Orczy, the film is about an eighteenth-century...
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    The Old Man in the Corner (category Short story collections by Baroness Emma Orczy)
    detective who appears in a series of short stories written by Baroness Orczy. He examines and solves crimes while sitting in the corner of a genteel...
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    by Nándor Pogány (1913). Old Hungarian Fairy Tales (1895), by Countess Emma Orczy and Montague Barstow. Fernán Caballero (Cecilia Böhl de Faber) (Spain...
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    Cavalier enjoying the beer. In the Scarlet Pimpernel adventure series by Emma Orczy, The Laughing Cavalier is a prequel recounting the story of the supposed...
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    in Sir Percival Blakeney, hero of the Scarlet Pimpernel pulp series by Emma Orczy. The character recalls other figures, such as Robin Hood, Reynard the...
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  • female propagandists such as Mrs Humphry Ward, May Wedderburn Cannan, Emma Orczy, and entertainers such as Vesta Tilley. In particular, the poem "War Girls"...
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    alias of Sir Percy Blakeney in the novel of the same name by Baroness Emma Orczy and its numerous film and musical adaptations. The fictional flower Elanor...
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  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (TV series) (category Films based on works by Emma Orczy)
    series of television drama programmes loosely based on Baroness Emmuska Orczy's series of novels, set during the French Revolution. It stars Richard E...
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  • activist (d. 1954) 1865 – Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (d. 1933) 1865 – Emma Orczy, Hungarian-English author and playwright (d. 1947) 1865 – Suzanne Valadon...
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  • "Pimpernel" Smith (category Films based on works by Emma Orczy)
    "Pimpernel" Smith took the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy into modern times. Having played the leading role in the film The Scarlet...
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    Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (category Short story collections by Baroness Emma Orczy)
    Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written by Baroness Orczy, who is best known as the creator of The Scarlet Pimpernel, but who also...
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    The Case of Miss Elliott (category Short story collections by Baroness Emma Orczy)
    The Case of Miss Elliott was Baroness Orczy's first collection of detective stories. It appeared in 1905 and featured the first of her detective characters...
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  • The Elusive Pimpernel (1950 film) (category Films based on works by Emma Orczy)
    Pressburger, based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. It was released in the United States under the title The Fighting Pimpernel...
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    By the Gods Beloved (category Novels by Baroness Emma Orczy)
    Gods Beloved, first published in the UK in 1905, was a novel by Baroness Orczy. It was released under the title The Gates of Kamt in the US. The novel...
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  • Philip Chetwode Herbert Kitchener T. E. Lawrence Sir John Maxwell Baroness Emma Orczy Christabel Pankhurst Emmeline Pankhurst Rudolf Carl von Slatin The professor´s...
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  • Nubia, living, England) Valantina Abu Oqsa (born 1967), Palestine Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy, 1865–1947, England) Dael Orlandersmith (living, United States)...
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    Dauphin of Viennois, is a character in Shakespeare's Henry V. In Baronness Emma Orczy's Eldorado, the Scarlet Pimpernel rescues the Dauphin from prison and helps...
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  • Their skeletons are seen in Greyfriars School. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Emma Orczy Volume 1 Issue 2 (p. 23, pnl.2), Volume 1 cover, NTA, BD, F The masked...
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  • Blind George Barr McCutcheon – Brewster's Millions (adaptation) Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy) – The Sin of William Jackson Mikhail Kuzmin – Alexandrian Songs...
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    Eldorado (novel) (category Novels by Baroness Emma Orczy)
    Eldorado, by Baroness Orczy is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable...
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