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The Case of Miss Elliott by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (ISBN: 9780755111244)
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The Case of Miss Elliott Paperback - 2002
by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Details
- Title The Case of Miss Elliott
- Author Baroness Emmuska Orczy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New edition
- Language ENG
- Publisher House of Stratus
- Date October 2002
- ISBN 9780755111244
About the author
Baroness Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865, the daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a landed aristocrat and well-known composer and conductor. Orczy moved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and Paris, where she was educated. She studied art in London and exhibited work in the Royal Academy. She married Montagu Barstow and together they worked as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales. Orczy became famous in 1905 with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel (originally a play co-written with her husband). Its background was the French Revolution and its swashbuckling hero, Sir Percy Blakeney, was to prove immensely popular. Sequel books followed and film and TV versions were later made. Orczy also wrote detective stories which still prove popular and are equally acclaimed within this genre. She died in 1947.
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