Anthony Hope 
Mrs. Maxon Protests (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

The eponymous heroine of this 1910 novel leaves her overbearing husband and embarks on a quest to find love with a compatible partner.  Said the
New York Times: ‘Mr. Hope has handled the subject delicately and convincingly, and makes plain the fact that men and women must conform to the majority opinion, right or wrong, or pay the penalty.’

Over de auteur

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933), who published under the name Anthony Hope, was a prolific English novelist and playwright.  His best-known works are the swashbuckling adventures Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel, Rupert of Hentzau (1898).  Knighted in 1918 for his wartime service with the Ministry of Information, his autobiography Memories and Notes appeared in 1927.