Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins

Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it...

Her father was political barrister Frank Costelloe . According to Mary Agnes Hamilton, the novelist Anthony Hope used him as a model for the eponymous hero of his Quisanté, 1900.

At the Bourne End house, KPF and her sister spent idyllic youthful days, canoeing, punting, and bicycling. The Plat also provided KPF with access to an aristocratic network, as many upper-class families attended the...

The doubles are alike in looks only, and widely different in character. One, a solitary Englishman named John, takes the place for a week of the other, the French count Jean de Gué, whose family...

She claimed that its influences included The Dolly Dialogues by Anthony Hope . She wrote it during a year at her family's farmhouse at Wooburn Green in Buckinghamshire, under its early title of The...

Rebecca West reviewed the book in The Daily Telegraph, calling it [a]n admirable novel. Nobody has ever written so well about the kind of English people who live in big houses since Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins

The bronze portrait memorial to JOH was unveiled at University College, London , by Lord Curzon in the presence of herparents , assorted peers and dignitaries, and writers including Thomas Hardy and Anthony Hope

AL 's style and reputation are bound up with those of Oscar Wilde . Her biographer Charles Burkhart accepts that Wilde was the catalyst of her writing career, though he insists that she does not...