Baroness Orczy (1865–1947)
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Bildnachweis: Baroness Emma Orczy de Orczi (1865–1947) by Bassano Ltd.
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Wissenswertes
- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Baroness Orczy
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Orczy, Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála, Baroness
- Andere Namen
- Orczy, Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josephina Barbara
Baroness Orczy
Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness
Orczy, Emmuska - Geburtstag
- 1865-09-23
- Todestag
- 1947-11-12
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- Österreich (gebürtig)
Großbritannien (eingebürgert, 1910) - Geburtsort
- Tanaörs, Ungarn, Österreich
- Sterbeort
- Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, Großbritannien
- Wohnorte
- London, England, Großbritannien
Budapest, Ungarn, Österreich
Brüssel, Belgien
Paris, Frankreich
Monte Carlo, Monaco - Ausbildung
- West London School of Art
Heatherley's School of Fine Art - Berufe
- artist
illustrator
novelist
translator
aristocrat - Beziehungen
- Korda, Alexander (producer)
- Organisationen
- Detection Club
- Kurzbiographie
- Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josephina Barbara, Baroness Orczy, known as Emmuska, was born in Hungary, the daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a landed aristocrat and well-known composer and conductor, and his wife Countess Emma Wass. She was educated in Brussels, Paris, and London, and exhibited her art work in the Royal Academy. In 1894, she married Montagu Barstow, a British clergyman and artist, and they worked together as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales. Orczy became famous in 1905 with the publication of her novel The Scarlet Pimpernel (originally a play co-written with her husband). Its background of the French Revolution and swashbuckling hero, Sir Percy Blakeney, was to prove immensely popular. Sequel books followed and numerous film and TV versions have been made with the first in 1934, produced by Alexander Korda, another Hungarian. Baroness Orczy also wrote detective and adventure stories. She inherited her family’s estate of Tarna-Ors in Hungary but continued to live in England until the end of World War I, when she and her husband settled in Monte Carlo.
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I'm quite surprised this book appears on so many classic romance lists, because I'm not even sure if it was a romance.
It's a story of beautiful Marguerite, called the most intelligent woman in Europe, who married a very stupid, but extremely rich man, Sir Percy Blakeney. Their marriage is not a happy one, they are disappointed in one another and they hardly even speak. Marguerite is blackmailed into helping a French agent to discover the identity of a mysterious English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel. Then, feeling guilty about what she'd done, she goes to France to save the great man.
I had two main problems with this book: first, most of the plot didn't make any sense whatsoever. Why did the Pimpernel's people keep writing notes to one another, why didn't they simply talk? They were oficially friends, why didn't they visit each other? All this plot at the ball was stupid. Next - Marguerite went to France to help her hero and she did absolutely nothing, she didn't even try to help the Pimpernel. The French agent was trying to catch a dangerous, elusive enemy - so he rented the slowest possible carriage, which Margueritecan could easily follow on foot? It is all so silly and pointless, that I kept rolling my eyes. The second problem was that the book was generally quite boring. It felt much longer than it really was.
I'm really sorry that we didn't get Sir Percy's perspective, I'm sure it would make this book much more interesting and deeper.
Generally, I didn't enjoy this book very much, but I'm glad I finally read it.
(I first published this review here: https://dominikasreadingchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-scarlet-pimpernel-by-...… (mehr)