Baroness Emmuska {Emma} Orczy
1865 – 1947
Emma Orczy was educated in Brussels and Paris, then studied art in London with some of her work being exhibited in the Royal Academy. She became famous with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel, a swashbuckling adventure series set during the French Revolution, wherein the mission of the elusive hero Sir Percy Blakeney was to smuggle French aristocrats out of France.
There have been numerous film and television adaptations of The Scarlet Pimpernel between 1917 and 2000.
The Laughing Cavalier
Adventure / Historical Fiction
A swashbuckling historical adventure about Diogenes, the first Sir Percy Blakeney, caught in love and intrigue in the Dutch Republic in the year 1623
The First Sir Percy
Adventure / Historical Fiction
The adventures of Diogenes, who has discovered his true identity as Sir Percy Blakeney’s ancestor, through the political intrigues of loyal service in the Netherlands
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Historical Fiction / Adventure
The classic tale of Sir Percy Blakeney, a seemingly foppish English aristocrat who secretly rescues French aristocrats from the guillotine during the Reign of Terror
Sir Percy Leads the Band
Adventure / Historical Fiction
A direct sequel in which Sir Percy and his League continue daring rescues in revolutionary France in early 1793
Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Adventure / Historical Fiction
A collection of short stories featuring various exploits of Sir Percy and his rogue band throughout 1793
the league of the scarlet pimpernel
Adventure / Historical Fiction
Eleven linked tales about the secret League’s missions to outwit revolutionaries and save the lives of innocents in 1793
a child of the revolution
Adventure / Historical Fiction
During the French Revolution, Sir Percy recounts the story of a young Jacobin whose pursuit of vengeance and love leads to dramatic reversals and reconciliations
i will repay
Historical Fiction / Romance
A woman bound by a vow of vengeance in revolutionary France finds her oath complicated by both love and honor
the elusive Pimpernel
Adventure / Historical Fiction
Chauvelin devises a cunning plan to deceive and finally ensnare Sir Percy and his wife, leading to renewed tests of courage
lord tony’s wife
Adventure / Historical Fiction
Set during the early French Revolution, this story follows Pierre Adet and his rise from peasantry to the privilege of the aristocracy
the way of the scarlet pimpernel
Adventure / Historical Fiction
A tale wherein Chauvelin and the Baron de Batz reappear, adding fresh peril and intrigue for Sir Percy amidst French Revolutionary turmoil
eldorado
Adventure / Historical Fiction
In 1794 Paris, Sir Percy undertakes a high-stakes mission to rescue the young Dauphin from the grip of the Revolution’s violence
Mam’zelle Guillotine
Adventure / Historical Fiction
Sir Percy must thwart the feared executioner “Mam’zelle Guillotine” while rescuing members of the Saint-Lucque family
the triumph of the scarlet pimpernel
Adventure / Historical Fiction
Sir Percy saves condemned aristocrats in 1794 Paris, outwitting revolutionaries while facing the wily Thérésa Cabarrus and the chaos of the Thermidorian Reaction
sir percy hits back
Adventure / Historical Fiction
The Scarlet Pimpernel must rescue the Chauvelin family, forging alliances using daring plans at the height of the French Revolution’s turbulence
in the rue monge
Historical Fiction
A scientist arrested as an enemy of the Revolution faces execution, and Sir Percy’s daring intervention in the Rue Monge epitomises the peril of Revolutionary Paris
pimpernel and rosemary
Adventure / Historical Fiction
In the Post–World War I era, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Peter Blakeney, finds himself amid Hungarian nobility during a period of political unrest
