Federico Garcia Lorca
Spanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898-1936)
Baroness Emma Orczy( 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947), usually known as Baroness Orczyor to her family and friends as Emmuska Orczy, 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 French aristocrats from “Madame Guillotine” during the French Revolution, establishing the “hero with a secret identity” in popular culture.
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About the Baroness Orczy
Baroness Emma Orczy( 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947), usually known as Baroness Orczyor to her family and friends as Emmuska Orczy, 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 French aristocrats from “Madame Guillotine” during the French Revolution, establishing the “hero with a secret identity” in popular culture.
Opening in London’s West End on 5 January 1905, The Scarlet Pimpernel became a favourite of British audiences. Some of Orczy’s paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. She established the Women of England’s Active Service League during World War I with the intention of empowering women to convince men to enlist in the military.
2 Quotes by Baroness Orczy
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A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.
Baroness OrczyHungarian-born British novelist and playwright (1865-1947)
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We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? – Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?
Baroness OrczyHungarian-born British novelist and playwright (1865-1947)