Female : Novelist, Children's Writer & Illustrator. The family moved to London. Studied art in London where she met and married Montague Barstow, a fellow student in 1894. From 1918 they lived in Monte Carlo. Their son was John Blakeney

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Tarnaors, Hungary

Date of Birth : 1865 Date of Death : 1947 Age : 82

Education : Heatherley's School of Art, London & Brussels & Paris

1895-1905
(Adapted & illustrated by) Old Hungarian Fairy Tales (nd. 1895 Dean) - with Montague Barstow
(Trans) The Enchanted Cat & Other Fairy Tales (1895 Dean) - with Montague Barstow
(Trans) Fairyland's Beauty (1895 Dean)
(Trans) Uletka and the White Lizard & Other Fairy Tales (1895 Dean)
The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899 C Arthur Pearson) (1905 Greening)
[Filmed in 1937]
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1903) - with Montague Barstow
[Filmed in 1934, and then in 1950 as "The Elusive Pimpernel"]
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905 Greening)
By the Gods Beloved : A Romance (1905 Greening)
The Case of Miss Elliott & Other Tales (1905 Unwin)

1906-1910
A Son of the People : A Romance of the Hungarian Plains (1906 Greening)
I Will Repay : A Romance (1906 Greening)
The Sin of William Jackson (1906) - with Montague Barstow
The Tangled Skein (1907 Greening)
Beau Brocade : A Romance (1907 Lippincott) - C F Underwood (1908) - with Montague Barstow
Beau Brocade (1908 Greening)
The Elusive Pimpernel (1908 Hutchinson)
The Old Man in the Corner (1909 Greening) - H M Brock
(1909 Dodd Mead as "The Man in the Corner")
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk : A Roamnce of the 17thC (1909 Greening)
Petticoat Government (1910 Hutchinson)
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910 Cassell) - Cyrus Cuneo

1911-1915
A True Woman (1911 Hutchinson)
The Duke's Wager (1911)
Fire in Stubble (1912 Methuen)
Meadowsweet (1912 Hutchinson)
The Traitor (1912 Paget, US) - ss
Two Good Patriots (1912 Paget, US) - ss
Eldorado : A Story of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1913 Hodder & Stoughton)
Unto Caesar (1914 H & S)
The Laughing Cavalier (1914 H & S)
A Bride of the Plains (1915 Hutchinson)
[Hodder & Stoughton from here onwards]
The Bronze Eagle (1915)

1916-1920
Leatherface : A Tale of Old Flanders (1916)
The Old Scarecrow (1916 Paget, US) - ss
Lord Tony's Wife : An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1917)
A Sheaf of Bluebells (1917 Hutchinson)
Legion of Honour (1917 Hutchinson)
The Man in Grey : Being Episodes of the Chouan Conspiracies in Normandy during the First Empire
(1918 Cassell)
Flower O'The Lily : A Romance of Old Cambray (1918)
The Legion of Honour (1918)
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1919 Cassell)
His Majesty's Well Beloved : An Episode in the Life of Mr Thomas Betterton as told by his
friend John Honeywood (1919)
The First Sir Percy : An Adventure of the Laughing Cavalier (1920)

1921-1925
Castles in the Air (1921 Cassell)
Nicolette : A Tale (1922)
The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1922)
Leatherface (1922)
Pimpernel and Rosemary (1924 Cassell)
Les Beaux et les dandys des grands siecles en Angleterre (1924 Monaco) - 100 copies
The Honourable Jim : A Romance (1924)
A Question of Temptation (1925 Doran, US) - ss
The Miser of Maida Vale (1925 Doran, US) - ss

1926-1930
Unravelled Knots (1926 Hutchinson)
The Celestial City (1926)
Sir Percy Hits Back : An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1927)
Blue Eyes and Grey (1928)
Skin O'My Tooth : His Memoirs by His Confidential Clerk (1928) (1928 Doubleday Doran)
Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1929 Hutchinson) - ss
Marivosa (1930 Cassell)

1931 Onwards
In the Rue Morgue (1931 Doubleday, US) - ss
A Child of the Revolution (1932 Cassell)
A Joyous Adventure (1932)
The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1933)
The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World : Essays (1933 John Heritage, London)
A Spy of Napoleon (1934)
[Filmed in 1936]
The Uncrowned King : A True Romance of the 60's (1935)
The Turbulent Duchess : HRH Madame Le Duchesse De Berri (1935)
Sir Percy Leads the Band (1936)
The Divine Folly (1937)
No Greater Love (1938)
Mam'zelle Guillotine : An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1940)
[A UK First edition was sold at auction in 2001 for £805]
Pride of Race (1942)
Will O'the Wisp (1947 Hutchinson)
Links in the Chain of Life (1947 Hutchinson) - autobiography

READING
John Blakeney : The Gay Adventurer (1938 Long)
[Blakeney was her son]
Geoff Tibballs : The Making of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1998 Boxtree £9.99)