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Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins trained to be a barrister and was called to the Bar in 1877 where he practiced until 1894. During this time he wrote in his spare time, producing quite a number of short stories and also an unnoticed first novel, A Man of Mark (1890). Success came with The Dolly Dialogues, published in the "Westminster Gazette" in 1894. These witty sketches inspired Hope to leave the legal profession and take up writing full-time. The Prisoner of Zenda was published in May of 1894 and was popular enough to be dramatized in 1896. As a result of his services at the Ministry of Information during World War I, Hope was knighted and subsequently published his Memories and Notes (1927). |