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« on: May 05, 2023, 09:43:48 am »

Anthony Hope Hawkins was born in Clapton in 1863. He was educated at St. John's School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford. He was knighted in 1918.   

His novel "Half a Hero", from 1893, has thirty chapters:

1.    The Impossible---Inevitable
2.    A Popular Demonstration
3.    Hospitality ex Officio
4.    Weeding out the Weak-Kneed
5.    A Talk at a Dance
6.    A Candidate for Office
7.    A Common Spectacle
8.    For the Highest Bidder
9.    Two Hasty Utterances
10.    The Smoke of Hidden Fires
11.    A Conscientious Man's Conscience
12.    An Absurd Ambition
13.    Out of Harm's Way
14.    A Fatal Secession
15.    An Attempt at Terrorism
16.    A Leaky Vessel
17.    The Truth about the Man
18.    By an Oversight of Society's
19.    Last Chances
20.    The Law versus Rule 3
21.    All there was to Tell
22.    The Story of a Photograph
23.    An Orator's Rival
24.    Three against the World
25.    The Truth too Late
26.    The Unclean Thing
27.    The Decision of the Oracle
28.    Stealing a March
29.    A Beaten Man's Thoughts
30.    The End of a tumult

Here are the volumes he gave us:
    A Man of Mark, 1890.
    Father Stafford,1891.
    Mr. Witt's Widow: A Frivolous Tale, 1892.
    A Change of Air, 1893.
    Half a Hero, 1893.
    Sport Royal and other stories, 1893.
    The Dolly Dialogues, 1894.
    The God in the Car, 1894.
    The Prisoner of Zenda, 1894.
    The Indiscretion of the Duchess, 1894.
    The Chronicles of Count Antonio, 1895.
    Comedies of Courtship, 1896.
    The Heart of Princess Osra, 1896
    Phroso: A Romance, 1897
    Rupert of Hentzau, 1898.
    Simon Dale, 1898.
    The King's Mirror, 1899.
    Quisanté, 1900.
    Tristram of Blent, 1901.
    The Intrusions of Peggy, 1902.
    Double Harness, 1904.
    A Servant of the Public, 1905.
    Sophy of Kravonia, 1906.
    Tales of Two People, 1907.
    The Great Miss Driver, 1908.
    Dialogue, 1909.
    Second String, 1910.
    Mrs. Maxon Protests, 1911.
    Helena's Path, 1912.
    A Young Man's Year, 1915.
    Why Italy is with the Allies, 1917.
    Captain Dieppe, 1918.
    Beaumaroy Home from the Wars, 1919.
    Lucinda, 1920.
    Little Tiger, 1925.
    Memories and Notes, 1927.

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