Anthony Hope

(February 9, 1863 – July 8, 1933)

Anthony Hope was the pen name of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, a British author, barrister and politician, best known for The Prisoner of Zenda: Being the History of Three Months in the Life of an English Gentleman (1894) and other novels set in the fictional country of Ruritania, which gave its name to an entire genre of imaginary-lands fiction, both in fantasy and mainstream literature.

“His relevance to sf is indirect though pervasive,” noted sf encyclopedist John Clute. “Beyond a plethora of coincidences and doublings, and a dream-like sense of magic enablement, there is nothing inherently fantasticated in Hope's actual tales, beyond the fact that Ruritania does not exist.”

Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

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1863—1933

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