Editing Baroness Orczy (section)

==Early life==
Orczy was born in [[Tarnaörs]], Hungary. She was the daughter of the composer Baron Félix Orczy de [[Orci]] (1835–1892) and Countess Emma Wass de [[Vasasszentegyed|Szentegyed et Cege]] (1839–1892).<ref>Szluha, Márton (2012): Vas vármegye nemes családjai II. kötet (Noble families from the county of Vas, II tome). Heraldika kiadó. page 260.</ref>
Her paternal grandfather, Baron László Orczy (1787–1880), was a royal councillor, and knight of the [[Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George|Sicilian order of Saint George]];<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12122-137523-99?cc=1542666&wc=M6WV-BM9:101520103,101722201 |title=Hungary Funeral Notices, 1840-1990; pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12122-137523-99 — FamilySearch.org |website=[[FamilySearch]] |access-date=14 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091651/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12122-137523-99?cc=1542666&wc=M6WV-BM9:101520103,101722201 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> her paternal grandmother, Baroness Magdolna, born Magdolna Müller (1811–1879), was of Austrian origin.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12122-133677-0?cc=1542666&wc=M6WV-BM9:101520103,101722201 |title=Hungary Funeral Notices, 1840-1990; pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12122-133677-0 — FamilySearch.org |website=[[FamilySearch]] |access-date=14 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304104345/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12122-133677-0?cc=1542666&wc=M6WV-BM9:101520103,101722201 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Her maternal grandparents were the Count Sámuel Wass de Szentegyed et Cege (1815–1879), member of the Hungarian parliament,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11097-127369-82?cc=1542666&wc=M6WV-PTL:101520601,101622301 |title=Hungary Funeral Notices, 1840-1990; pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11097-127369-82 — FamilySearch.org |website=[[FamilySearch]] |access-date=14 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230949/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11097-127369-82?cc=1542666&wc=M6WV-PTL:101520601,101622301 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Rozália Eperjessy de Károlyfejérvár (1814–1884).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11097-128186-85?cc=1542666&wc=M6WV-PTL:101520601,101622301 |title=Hungary Funeral Notices, 1840-1990; pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11097-128186-85 — FamilySearch.org |website=[[FamilySearch]] |access-date=14 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307215634/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11097-128186-85?cc=1542666&wc=M6WV-PTL:101520601,101622301 |archive-date=7 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Emma's parents left their estate for Budapest in 1868, fearful of the threat of a peasant revolution. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris, where Emma studied music unsuccessfully. Finally, in 1880, the 14-year-old Emma and her family moved to London, England where they lodged with their countryman, Francis Pichler, at 162 [[Great Portland Street]]. Orczy attended [[West London School of Art]] and then the [[Heatherley School of Fine Art]].

Although not destined to be a painter, it was at art school that she met a young illustrator named Henry George Montagu MacLean Barstow, the son of an English clergyman; they were married at St Marylebone parish church on 7 November 1894. It was the start of what she described as a joyful and happy marriage, "for close on half a century, one of perfect happiness and understanding, of perfect friendship and communion of thought."<ref>Orczy, Emmuska. ''Links in the Chain of Life'', Ch. 8. London: Hutchinson, 1947.</ref>