 Orczy went on to write over a dozen sequels featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, his family, and the other members of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, of which the first, "I Will Repay" (1906), was the most popular.Set between 1832 and 1901 England, beginning with the Reform Act 1832 and including the reign of Queen Victoria.A popular type of historical romance of this period was set a fictional country, such as the Ruritanian novels

Romantic stories about the royalty of a fictional kingdom were common in fiction, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, for instance Robert Louis Stevenson's "Prince Otto" (1885), Anthony Hope's "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1894), and Beatrice Heron-Maxwell, "The Queen Regent" (1902).