“History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and from Georgette Heyer to Agatha Christie.” SchoolReadingHistoryPersonalAgatha ChristieHeidiScarlet PimpernelGeorgette Heyer Author:Sara Sheridan
“They seek him here, they seek him there Those Frenchies seek him everywhere Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That demned elusive Pimpernel” Scarlet PimpernelBaroness Emmuska Orczy Book:The Scarlet Pimpernel Source: The Scarlet Pimpernel
“Tis only in the future you can prove your true worth.” SeriesDiogenesScarlet PimpernelLaughing CavalierBaroness Emma Orczy Author:Baroness Orczy
“Your conscience troubles you unnecessarily, and you see a deliberate intention in every simple act.” SeriesDiogenesScarlet PimpernelLaughing Cavalier Author:Baroness Emma Orczy
“He made her laugh always made her taste a strange and exquisite bliss when he held her in his arms.” SeriesScarlet PimpernelLaughing CavalierBaroness Emmuska OrczyDigoenes Author:Baroness Orczy
“Since then her life had been peaceful and happy. She had allowed herself to be worshipped by that strangely captivating lover of hers, whose passionately willful temperament, tempered by that persistent, sunny gaiety, she had up to now only half understood.” SeriesDiogenesScarlet PimpernelLaughing CavalierBaroness Emmuska Orczy Author:Baroness Orczy
“Hers was the perfect love that dwells on the other's happiness, and not on its own. She knew that, though for the time being he would find bliss and oblivion in her arms, he would soon repine in inactivity whilst others fought for that which he held sublime.” SeriesDiogenesScarlet PimpernelLaughing CavalierBaroness Orczy Author:Baroness Emma Orczy
“She had seen them in turmoil all round her--love, hatred, vengeance, treachery--she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of the deadly strife she had emerged pure, happy in the arms of the man whom her wondrous adventures as much as his brilliant personality had taught her to love.” SeriesDiogenesScarlet PimpernelLaughing CavalierBaroness Emmuska Orczy Author:Baroness Orczy