 Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright, and artist of noble origin.In 1903, she and her husband wrote a play, "The Scarlet Pimpernel", based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., who rescued French aristocrats from the French Revolution.She submitted her novelization of the story under the same title to 12 publishers.