Author:Emma Orczy

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Emma Orczy (1865–1947)

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British novelist, playwright, and artist of Hungarian origin; most known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Her Lady Molly of Scotland Yard was an early example of a female detective as the main character. Other popular detective stories featured The Old Man In the Corner, a sleuth who chiefly used logic to solve crimes. Pen names: Baroness Orczy

Emma Orczy

Works

(incomplete list)

Novels

• The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899) (no index)
• In Mary's Reign (1901) a.k.a. The Tangled Skein (1907) (external scan)
• A Son of the People (1906)
• The Gates of Kamt (1907, US) (First published as By the Gods Beloved, 1905 in UK)
• Beau Brocade (1907)
• The Nest of the Sparrowhawk (1909)
• Petticoat Government (1910)
• A True Woman (1911) (external scan)
• The Traitor (1912)
• The Good Patriots (1912)
• Fire in Stubble (1912)
• Meadowsweet (1912) (external scan)
• Unto Cæsar (1914) Project Gutenberg
• A Bride of the Plains (1915) (external scan)
• The Bronze Eagle (1915) (external scan)
• Leatherface (1916) (external scan)
• A Sheaf of Bluebells (1917)
• Flower o' the Lily (1918)
• His Majesty's Well-Beloved (1919)
• Nicolette: A Tale of Old Provence (1922) (external scan)

Scarlet Pimpernel series

• The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) (no index) (external scan)
• I Will Repay (1906) (external scan)
• The Elusive Pimpernel (1908) (external scan)
• Eldorado (1913) (external scan)
• The Laughing Cavalier (1914) (no index) (external scan)
• Lord Tony's Wife (1917) (external scan)
• The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1919) (short stories) (external scan)
• The First Sir Percy (1921)
• The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1922) (no index) (external scan)
• Pimpernel and Rosemary (1924)
• Sir Percy Hits Back (1927)
• Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1929) (short stories)
• A Child of the Revolution (1932)
• The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1933)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World (1933)
• Sir Percy Leads the Band (1936)
• Mam'zelle Guillotine (1940)

Omnibus Editions

• The Scarlet Pimpernel etc (1930) collection of four novels
• The Gallant Pimpernel (1939) collection of four novels
• The Scarlet Pimpernel: Four Complete Novels in One Volume (1957) (external scan)
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) — I Will Repay (1906) — Eldorado (1913) — Sir Percy Hits Back (1927)

Short Stories and collections

Collections

• The Case of Miss Elliot (collection of detective stories, 1905)
• The Old Man In the Corner (collection of detective stories, 1909) (no index) (external scan)
• Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (collection of detective stories, 1910) (transcription project)
• The Man in Grey (short stories, 1918) (external scan)
• Castles in the Air (collection, 1921)
• Unravelled Knots (collection of detective stories, 1926)
• Skin o' My Tooth (collection of detective stories, 1928)

Individual short stories

• "Needs Must" [Scarlet Pimpernel] in Adventure magazine, Aug 3, 1919 (novelette)
• Skin o' My Tooth in Windsor magazine, 1903 (detective stories; in book form 1928)
  • I.—The Murder in Saltashe Woods
  • II.—The Case of the Polish Prince
  • III.—The Case of Major Gibson
  • IV.—The Duffield Peerage Case
  • V.—The Case of Mrs. Norris
  • VI.—The Multon Braby Murder

Plays

• The Scarlet Pimpernel (play) (1903)
• The Sin of William Jackson (1906)
• Beau Brocade (1908)
• The Duke's Wager (1911)
• The Legion of Honour (1918), adapted from A Sheaf of Bluebells

Non-Fiction

• Links in the Chain of Life (autobiography, 1947)

Translations

• Old Hungarian Fairy Tales (1895) translator with Montague Barstow
• The Enchanted Cat (1895) translator with Montague Barstow
• Fairyland’s Beauty (1895) translator with Montague Barstow
• Uletka and the White Lizard (1895) translator with Montague Barstow

Works about Orczy

• ""Orczy, Baroness" (Mrs. Montagu Barstow)," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)