British literature Scots. The poet Michael Longley (born 1939) has experimented with Ulster Scots for the translation of Classical verse, as in his 1995 collection "The Ghost Orchid". Among significant writers in this genre in the early twentieth-century were Erskine Childers' "The Riddle of the Sands" (1903), who wrote spy novels, Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy) author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel", an historical romance which recounted the adventures of a member of the English gentry in the French Revolutionary period. The title character established the notion of a "hero with a secret identity" into popular culture. John Buchan wrote adventure novels like "Prester
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