Anthony Hope
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Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, was a British novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two
Hope, 1880–1898
Anthony Hope Hawkins by Zaida Ben-Yusuf, 1897
Blue plaque in Bedford Square, London
Ruritanian romance
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Ruritanian romance is a genre of literature, film and theatre comprising novels, stories, plays and films set in a fictional country, usually in Central or Eastern Europe, such as the "Ruritania" that
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…1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance, books set in fictional European locales similar to the novels. Zenda has inspired many adaptations, most notably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same…
Frontispiece to The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope.