Anthony Hope

Anthony Hope (1863–1933) was the pen name of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, an English novelist. Educated at Marlborough and Oxford, he practiced as a barrister and stood unsuccessfully for Parliament before The Prisoner of Zenda, published in 1894, made him famous and let him write full time. The Dolly Dialogues appeared the same year and Rupert of Hentzau, the sequel to Zenda, in 1898. He wrote more than thirty further novels and plays, served in the Ministry of Information during the First World War and was knighted in 1918. Ruritania, his imaginary kingdom, has given its name to a whole genre of romance.