Электронная книга: Emma Orczy «"Unto Caesar"»
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Emma Orczy
Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi (anglicized to
Early life
Emmuska
Although not destined to be a painter,art school did change her life forever, for it was there she met a young illustrator named Montague MacLean Barstow, the son of an English clergyman, whom she eventually married in 1894. It was the start of a joyful and happy marriage "for close on half a century one of perfect happiness and understanding of perfect friendship and communion of thought."
Writing career
They had very little money, and Orczy started to work with her husband as a translator and an illustrator to supplement his low earnings. John Montague Orczy-Barstow, their only child, was born
In 1903, she and her husband wrote a play based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., who rescued French aristocrats from the
She went on to write over a dozen sequels featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, his family, and the other members of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, of which the first, "I Will Repay" (1906), was the most popular. The last Pimpernel book, "
Orczy's novels were racy, mannered
Her work was so successful that she was able to buy an estate in
She died in
Descendants
Her son, John Montague Orczy-Barstow, was a writer under the name
Her grandson, Michael Felix Orczy-Barstow, was a British aviator and an early computer systems analyst. He died in Corpus Christi,
Name pronunciation
Asked how to say her name, Orczy told "The
Works
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TRANSLATIONS
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PLAYS
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*The Sin of William Jackson (1906)
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*The Duke's Wager (1911)
*The Legion of Honour (1918), adapted from
SHORT STORIES
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*The Man in Grey (short stories, 1918)
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*"Castles in the Air" (collection, 1921)
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NOVELS
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*I will Repay (1906)
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*The Elusive Pimpernel (1908)
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*The Traitor (1912)
*The Good Patriots (1912)
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*Meadowsweet (1912)
*Eldorado (1913)
*Unto Cæsar (1914)
*The Laughing Cavalier (1914)
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*Leatherface (1916)
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*Flower o' the Lily (1918)
*His Majesty's Well-beloved (1919)
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*Nicolette: A Tale of Old Provence (1922)
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*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)
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*Blue Eyes and Grey (1929)
*Marivosa (1930)
*In the Rue Monge (1931)
*A Joyous Adventure (1932)
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*A Spy of Napoleon (1934)
*The Uncrowned King (1935)
*The Turbulent Duchess (1935)
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*No Greater Love (1938)
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*Pride of Race (1942)
*The Will-O'-The-Wisp (1947)
OMNIBUS EDITIONS
*The Scarlet Pimpernel etc (1930) collection of four novels
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*The Scarlet Pimpernel Omnibus (1957) collection of four novels
NON FICTION
*"Links in the Chain of Life" (autobiography, 1947)
External links
* [http://www.blackmask.com/cgi-bin/newlinks/search.cgi?query=orczy Works by Baroness Orczy] at [http://www.blackmask.com/ Blackmask]
* [http://www.blakeneymanor.com/series.html Works by Baroness Orczy] at [http://www.blakeneymanor.com/ Blakeney Manor]
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* [http://www.apwatt.co.uk/index.asp?left=authors_left.asp?author_id=274&right=author_full.asp?author_id=274 Literary agent]
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References
*'Obituary—Baroness ORCZY: "The Scarlet Pimpernel"', "The Times",
Источник: Emma Orczy
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