Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma (Emmuska) Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) (1865 - 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. Also, 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 ill-fated French royalty from Madame Guillotine during the French revolution, establishing the hero with a secret identity into popular culture. Other Books of the Author: - The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) - The Old Man in the Corner (1908) - The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1919) - El Dorado (1913) - The Elusive Pimpernel (1908) - I Will Repay (1906)