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"Orczy, Baroness" (Mrs. Montagu Barstow)
Novelist and playwright. The Emperor's Candlesticks, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905), A Son of the Peop...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
(1807-1893)
Dau. of an Irish gentleman, m. the Baron T., Chamberlain at the Court of Bavaria. She wrote several novels dealing with German life of which the first, The Initials (1850), is perhaps the best. Others were Cyrilla (1883), Quits (1857), and At Odds (1863).
Novelist and playwright. The Emperor's Candlesticks, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905), A Son of the Peop...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin