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HOPE, ANTHONY , the pen-name of ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS (1863 ), British novelist, who was born on the 7th of February 1863, the second son of the Rev. E. C. Hawkins, Vicar of St Bride's, Fleet Street, London. He was educated at Marlborough and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was president of the Union Society, and graduated with first classes in Moderations and Final Schools. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1877. He soon began contributing stories and sketches to the St James's Gazette, and in 1890 published his first novel, A Man of Mark. This was followed by Father Stafford (189r), Mr Witt's Widow (1892), Change of Air and Sport Royal and Other Stories (1893). By this time he had attracted by his vivacious talent the attention of editors and readers; but it was not till the following year that he attained a great popular success with the publication (May 1894) of The Prisoner of Zenda. This was followed a few weeks later by The Dolly Dialogues (previously published in separate instalments in the Westminster Gazette). Both books became parents of a numerous progeny. The Prisoner of Zenda, owing something to the Prince Otto of R. L. Stevenson, established a fashion for what was christened, after its fictitious locality, " Ruritanian romance "; while the Dolly Dialogues, inspired possibly by " Gyp " and other French dialogue writers, was the forerunner of a whole school of epigrammatic drawing-room comedy. The Prisoner of Zenda, with Mr Alexander as " Rupert Rassendyll," enjoyed a further success in a dramatized form at the St James's Theatre, which did still more to popularize the author's fame. In 1894 also appeared The God in the Car, a novel suggested by the ambiguous influence on English society of Cecil Rhodes's career; and Half a Hero, a complementary study of Australian politics. The same year saw further the publication of The Indiscretion of the Duchess, in the style of the Dolly Dialogues, and of another collection of stories named (after the first) The Secret of Wardale Court. In 1895 Mr Hawkins published Count Antonio, and contributed to Dialogues of the Day, edited by Mr Oswald
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it gained in grip of the social conditions of contemporary life. He wrote two plays, The Adventure of Lady Ursula (1898) and Pilkerton's Peerage (1902), and his later novels include The Great Hiss Driver (1908) and Second String
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