The byline used by Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara
Orczy (1865-1947) was Baroness Orczy. Orczy was born in Tarna-Ors,
Hungary, the only daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a noted composer
and conductor, and his wife, Emma. Orczy moved with her parents
from Budapest to Brussels to Paris and then to London, where she
learned to speak English at the age of fifteen. She was educated at
West London School of Art. Orcy's first detective stories appeared
in magazines, but as a writer, she gained fame in 1903 with the
stage version of The Scarlet Pimpernel. In the late 1910s, Orcy and
her husband moved to Monte Carlo, where they stayed during the Nazi
occupation. Her husband died in 1943, and after World War II, she
spent her remaining years in England.
Gary Hoppenstandis a professor who teaches in the Department of
American Thought and Language at Michigan State University. He has
published numerous books and articles on topics ranging from
nineteenth-century British and American literature to film studies.
He has been nominated twice for the World Fantasy Award, and he has
won the Popular Culture Association's National Book Award for his
textbook, Popular Fiction- An Anthology. He has worked on a Penguin
Twentieth-Century Classics edition of P.C. Wren's Beau Gesteand has
published a Penguin Classics omnibus edition of Anthony Hope's two
novels The Prisoner of Zendaand Rupert of Hentzau.
“Arguably the best adventure story ever published and certainly the most influential that appeared during the early decades of the twentieth century.”—Gary Hoppenstand
"Arguably the best adventure story ever published and certainly the most influential that appeared during the early decades of the twentieth century."-Gary Hoppenstand
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