Why did baroness orczy write the scarlet pimpernel
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Baroness Orczy
The Hungarian-British novelist known as the Baroness Orczy (1865-1947) wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel, a fast-paced and well-plotted tale of heroism during the French Revolution.
Orczy's story was originally a successful stage play in London, and went on to several feature film versions in the first half of the twentieth century.
The title refers to a mysterious savior who rescues innocent French nobles from the guillotine, and who is eventually unmasked as Sir Percy Blakeney, an English fop and the unlikeliest of heroes. Orczy's first Pimpernel tale and its sequels, wrote Times of London journalist Will Gatti, “have an archetypal quality that becomes the base for other stories.
Percy, with his dual identity, is the direct forerunner of heroes such as Superman, driven to save the world without letting the world see who they really are.”
The Baroness Orczy was born Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Orczy on September 23, 1865, in Tarna-Ors, Hungary.
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