Baroness Orczy, speaking at a literary luncheon in England the other day, told how.she had sent her novel, "The Scarlet Pimpernel," to publisher after publisher in vain. At last, when she was very discouraged and -worried, a publisher offered to buy it' outright for £3O. A fortnight later he wrote to say that his firm had. reconsidered | the matter, and would not publish the | booh at all. It must have seemed a very dismal blow, but - it was the greatest bit of good fortune that could, haive happened to the author, fesr She \s.'oUls .have sold a gold mine for £3O, "'"
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21647, 4 December 1935, Page 7
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