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I think it extends beyond mere sexism, and you wonder what was going on with Orzcy in that respect, although more on that. It wasn't just women, it was her social attitude in general.
Orczy clearly had a lot of sympathy for the emigrés presumably resulting from fellow feeling. Her parents had fled Hungary when she was a child in fear of a peasant resolution and her family which eventually fetched up in England had a penurious existence afterward. Orczy paid lip service to the underlying causes of the revolution, but it's obvious she's on Team Aristocrat. From the English point of view, the worst aspect of the French revolution and its excesses was that it postponed any reform in Britain for a good twenty years. Orczy no doubt thought that a good thing.
As for the sexism, one wonders. It's obvious that while happily married, she was the breadwinner. Was the nincompoop husband a projection or sheer venting?
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