Emma Orczy Emma Orczy Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci (; 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from "Madame Guillotine" during the French revolution, establishing the "hero with a secret identity" into popular culture. Opening in London's West End on 5 January 1905, "The Scarlet Pimpernel" became a favourite of British
The Horse and His Boy in the series. Like the other novels in "The Chronicles of Narnia", it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes; her work has been retained in many later editions. "The Horse and His Boy" is the only novel within "The Chronicles of Narnia" that features children from the imagined world of Narnia (rather than English characters) as the main characters. It is also the only novel within "The Chronicles of Narnia" that takes place entirely in the fictional Narnian world. The novel is set in the period covered by the last chapter of "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" (which was