| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Hope, Anthony |
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| pseud. of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, 1863–1933, English novelist. A lawyer, he wrote novels in his spare time. The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), a romantic novel of impersonation set in an imaginary kingdom, was an international success. None of his later novels—including a sequel, Rupert of Hentzau (1898)—or plays approached its enormous popularity. | 1 | | See his Memories and Notes (1927). | 2 |
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