The Dolly Dialogues: Twenty London Dialogues
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Mr Carter and Miss Dolly Foster talk — about her engagement, his losses, other people's marriages — in a series of dialogues in which nothing is said outright and everything is understood. Hope was a barrister who thought up The Prisoner of Zenda walking home from a court case and wrote it in a month; these 1894 sketches are the other half of his talent, and they are as good as light writing gets. Forty-one plates of painting by Tissot and Millais, from tea-table gossip to drawing-room encounters, catch the social comedy of these London dialogues.
Mr Carter and Miss Dolly Foster talk — about her engagement, his losses, other people's marriages — in a series of dialogues in which nothing is said outright and everything is understood. Hope was a barrister who thought up The Prisoner of Zenda walking home from a court case and wrote it in a m...
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Anthony Hope (1863–1933) was an English novelist and barrister. He worked in London before turning to writing full-time, and his works include the adventures The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau, as well as the society comedies The Dolly Dialogues and Frivolous Cupid.
Anthony Hope (1863–1933) was an English novelist and barrister. He worked in London before turning to writing full-time, and his works include the adventures The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau, as well as the society comedies The Dolly Dialogues and Frivolous Cupid.
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