Baroness Emmuska Orczy was a Hungarian-born British author and playwright, best known for her novel "The Scarlet Pimpernel" published in 1905. Born on September 23, 1865, in Tarnaörs, Hungary, she moved to London with her family in 1880. Orczy initially pursued art but turned to writing, achieving success with her historical adventure series featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, a daring Englishman who rescues aristocrats from the French Revolution. She passed away on November 12, 1947, in Henley-on-Thames, England.
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