Spontaneous Musings

I'm sorry to pick nits here, but Orczy was publishing well after George Eliot's heyday and there were a substantial number of women writing and being published, indeed my impression is that she would have been more or less contemporaneous with the 'New Woman' novelists, who overlapped a bit with the Decadent Women a mate of mine has recently written a book on, when she started, and then on into the interwar years.

I wonder who wrote that intro, honestly. And when.

Possibly the subtext is 'writing swashbuckling adventure'?