The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

By Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

Subjects: Historical Fiction, France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction, British -- France -- Fiction, Adventure stories, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, fiction, Sir Blakeney, Percy (Fictitious character), Blakeney, Percy, Sir (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, British, Blakeney, percy, sir (fictitious character), fiction, English literature, History, Classic Literature, France, fiction

Description: It was not, Heaven help us all! a very uncommon occurrence these days: a woman almost unsexed by misery, starvation, and the abnormal excitement engendered by daily spectacles of revenge and of cruelty. They were to be met with every day, round every street corner, these harridans, more terrible far than were the men.