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| Born | Anthony Hope Hawkins 9 February 1863 Clapton, London, England |
| Died | 8 July 1933 (aged 70) Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, England |
| Occupation(s) | Barrister Writer |
| Notable work | The Prisoner of Zenda Rupert of Hentzau |
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Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), better known as Anthony Hope, was a British novelist and playwright.[1] He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898).
These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance, books set in fictional European locales similar to the novels.[2] Zenda has inspired many adaptations, most notably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same name and the 1952 version.
- ^ Taylor 2004.
- ^ Lancelyn Green 1966, p. vii.