Anthony Hope

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was born February 9th 1863 in London, England. As the youngest child of Reverend Edwards Hawkins, Anthony would attend the school at which his father was headmaster – St John’s Foundation School for the Sons of Poor Clergy. Anthony then went on to study at Marlborough College, and showed his interest in literature by becoming the editor of its newspaper The Malburian. Whilst attending Balliol College, Anthony developed an interest in law and also began to write fiction. By 1890, Anthony began to publish a series of novels which began that same year with the satire A Man of Mark, followed in 1891 by Father Stafford. However, Anthony’s greatest success would come in 1894 with the publication of The Prisoner of Zenda – a romantic adventure set in the mythical kingdom of Ruritania. The novel was so admired that Anthony published a sequel titled Rupert of Hentzau four years later. Anthony’s later work was not to be as lauded as his masterpiece The Prisoner of Zenda, but he would be financially successful due to film rights sales and reprints of his work. During World War I he decided to work for the Ministry of Information to counteract German propaganda, Anthony would spend a great deal of time writing pamphlets aimed at discouraging the German war effort.

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