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- Birth nameEmmuska Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josepha Barbara Orczy
- Baroness Emmuska Orczy was born on September 27, 1865 in Tarnaörs, Hungary. She was a writer, known for The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Scarlet Pimpernel and Two Lovers (1928). She was married to Montagu Barstow. She died on November 12, 1947 in London, England, UK.
- SpouseMontagu Barstow(1894 - ?) (1 child)
- Her most famous work, "The Scarlet Pimpernel", was written as a play in 1904.
- The name Orczy is pronounced Ort-zee.
- The language she wrote in, English, was not her mother tongue, rather, it was her third language - she had been exiled from her native land as a girl.
- Gave birth to her only child at age 33, a son John Montague Orczy-Barstow on February 25, 1899. Child's father was Montagu Barstow.
- Also known as Mrs. Montagu Barstow.
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