Baroness Orczy

Baroness Orczy, born Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci, was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her novel series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. Its central character, Sir Percy Blakeney, is a wealthy English dandy who adopts a secret identity during the French Revolution to rescue French aristocrats from the guillotine.