Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-07-08 | Page 2 | Anthony Hope Dies in London

ANTHONY HOPE DIES IN LONDON D a Dr Associated ADulated LONDON July 8 Anthony 8 Hope Hawkins world famous under the pen penname penname penname name of Anthony Hope died here to to- day Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins born February 9 1863 in London was widely wide ly known in America for lor his romances romances ro ro- mances am among ng the most popular o of which were The Prisoner of Zenda Zend a Rupert of Tristram o of Blent and Double Harness The author was knighted in 1918 Lady Hawkins a native of Vermont Ver mont was Miss Elizabeth Somerville Sheldon The novelist was educated at Oxford Ox ford where he was president of the Union society and later was called callei to the bar Hopes Hope's Prisoner 0 of Zenda set a fashion for what was called Run Ruri Romance after the fictitious locality in which the novel is set Another romance The Dolly DIalogues DIa Din was the forerunner for a whole school of epigrammatic drawing draw ing room comedy i The God in the Car a nove novel novelI I which appeared in 1894 was suggested suggest suggest- ed by the influence of ot Cecil Rhodes Rhodes' career on English society Half Hal a Hero was a complementary study o of Australian polities politics From his earlier books of light comedy com corn edy and gallant romantic inventions invention Anthony Hope advanced to a graver grave type of fiction which was embodied I in a series of novels