Emmuska Orczy

Emma Orczy or Baron Orci Orczy Emma (Tarnaörs, September 23, 1865 - London, November 12, 1947) is an English writer of Hungarian descent. He is the author of the novel Red Pimpernel. A crater on the planet Venus keeps its name. Baron Orcz Orczy was born the only daughter of Orczy Bódog and Countess Emma Wass of Szentegyedi and Cegei. She was 15 when her parents moved first to Brussels and then to London. Here she studied music and painting. In 1894 she married Montague Barstow. The young couple lived in very difficult financial circumstances. That's why Emma Orczy started writing. Her first attempts were unsuccessful, but some of his detective stories appeared in print. Her novel The Red Pimpernel was born in 1903 and was not successful for the first time in book form. Her stage version, on the other hand, was a great success in 1905 in London, with more than 2,000 performances. After the theatrical success, the novel also embarked on its world-conquering journey. It was translated into 14 languages ​​and made into more than thirty movies and TV films, and even served as a model for the creation of the American figure of Johnston McCulley called Zorro. Frank Wildhorn wrote a musical from the novel. Encouraged by the success of the Red Pimpernel, she wrote even more sequels to it in the years to come. In 1915, she published a war anthology called Lest We Forget. She also wrote several adventure and detective novels, which were also translated into several languages. In 1933, she published his volume of essays, The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World. She wrote his autobiography in 1947 as Links in the Chain of Life. She died on 12 November 1947 in London.