The Dolly Dialogues - Softcover

Hope, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1434407209 ISBN 13: 9781434407207

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2024

Synopsis

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (1863-1933), was an English novelist and playwright. Although a prolific writer, he is remembered best for "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1894) and its sequel, "Rupert of Hentzau" (1898).

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About the Author

Anthony Hope (1863-1933) was born Anthony Hope Hawkins in Clapton, London, and educated at Marlborough and Balliol College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1887, and began to write articles and short stories in his spare time, using his middle name as a pseudonym.

In 1890, Hawkins self-published his first novel, A Man of Mark, and, having failed in his attempt to become a Liberal M.P., produced several more works in quick succession, including Father Stafford (1891) and A Change of Air (1893).

In 1894, Hawkins published The Dolly Dialogues, a collection of humorous conversational sketches that had first appeared to great acclaim in the Westminster Gazette. This was followed in the same year by The Prisoner of Zenda, a book that made `Anthony Hope' a household name and spawned a whole new popular literary genre - the `Ruritanian' romance.
The spectacular success of Zenda allowed Hawkins to abandon his promising legal career and devote his time fully to writing. Over the next thirty years he published numerous novels, plays and short stories, including Rupert of Hentzau (1898 - a sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda), The King's Mirror (1899), Tristram of Blent (1901) and Sophy of Kravonia (1906).
Hawkins married in 1903 and bought a farm in Surrey, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He worked in the Ministry of Information during the First World War and was knighted for his services in 1918.

His cousin was Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), author of the children's classic The Wind in the Willows (1908).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1434407209
• ISBN 13: 9781434407207
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Christy Howard Chandler
• Number of pages: 218