Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, Théodore Géricault and John Singleton Copley. The Scarlet Pimpernel's league against the Terror at Nantes, where Carrier is drowning prisoners in the Loire. Pierre Adet, a Breton miller's son whose family was broken by the Duc de Kernogan's justice, comes back years later as Citizen Martin-Roget to take his revenge on the duke's daughter Yvonne — just married to Lord Tony Dewhurst, one of the league — and to use her as bait for the Pimpernel himself. Orczy wrote a dozen Pimpernel books and this is among the tightest, moving from Bath to Nantes; the vengeance of the miller's son is the part that gives the book its weight. Fifty-nine plates by Watteau, Gainsborough, and others trace the courtship and costume of the eighteenth century, the world of Bath and its exiles that Yvonne and her husband leave behind.
Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, Théodore Géricault and John Singleton Copley. The Scarlet Pimpernel's league against the Terror at Nantes, where Carrier is drowning prisoners in the Loire. Pierre Adet, a Breton miller's son whose family was broken by the ...
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Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865–1947) was a Hungarian-born British author who worked in London. She originated the character of the Scarlet Pimpernel, the protagonist of a series of historical adventure novels that includes The Scarlet Pimpernel, El Dorado, The Elusive Pimpernel, I Will Repay, and The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865–1947) was a Hungarian-born British author who worked in London. She originated the character of the Scarlet Pimpernel, the protagonist of a series of historical adventure novels that includes The Scarlet Pimpernel, El Dorado, The Elusive Pimpernel, I Will Repay, and T...
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