Baroness Orczy

The Nest Of The Sparrowhawk

A Romance of the XVIIth Century. Sprachen: Englisch. 21,6 cm / 14,0 cm / 1,7 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 284 Seiten
EAN 9789357484626
Veröffentlicht Januar 2023
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Baroness Orczy wrote The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Tale of the XVIIth Century. The plot opens with Sir Marmaduke de Chevasse, who is determined to acquiring Lady Sue's fortune for himself. Sue is a young woman with a girlish figure who delights in her classmates' admiration. With clothing that make her elders look ugly, she appears delicate and graceful. Sir Marmaduke schemes to woo Lady Sue while pretending to be the exiled French Prince of Orléans. He also schemes to entice young Richard Lambert to a London gambling establishment. Richard is forced to sit down at the table by his boss even though he is aware that gambling is an illegal activity. Will he succeed in his plans? Read The Nest Of The Sparrowhawk to know the complete story.

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Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci, or Baroness "Emmuska" Orczy to her friends and loved ones, was born on Sept 23, 1865, in Tarnaörs, Hungary. Her family, fearing a peasant revolution, fled to Budapest, eventually traveling to Brussels and Paris, where the Baroness lived until she was 14. From there they moved to London, where she attended two schools of art and met her husband, Henry George Montagu MacLean Barstow.They were married in 1894, and when she had her first child in 1899, she began her career as a writer.Her first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks, was a failure, but the Baroness found success writing detective stories for The Royal Magazine. Her second novel, In Mary's Reign, was published in 1901, faring much better than her first.Then in 1903, she and her husband wrote a stage play based on one of her short stories. The Baroness also submitted a novelization of the play under the same title to twelve publishers. While waiting for word from the publishers, The Scarlet Pimpernel stage play was accepted for production in London's West End. It began by bringing small audiences, but ran for four years and became one of Britain's most popular plays.The Baroness wrote many more stories about the Scarlet Pimpernel, accumulating 15 novels and 19 short stories. She is credited with introducing "the hero with a secret identity" trope into popular culture, and was a founding member of The Detection Club, a group of British mystery writers such as Agatha Christie. Baroness Emma Orczy passed away in London on November 12, 1947, in London after a long, happy marriage and successful career.

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