baroness who wrote the scarlet pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel was written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, a Hungarian-born British novelist. The novel was first produced as a play in 1903 and published in book form in 1905. It is set during the French Revolution and tells the story of Sir Percy Blakeney, who secretly becomes the Scarlet Pimpernel, a daring hero rescuing French aristocrats from execution. Baroness Orczy is chiefly remembered for this work and its subsequent sequels.