Randolph Hodgson

Hodgson was born in Playford, Suffolk, where his father Christopher was a clergyman, but the family moved to Yorkshire, where he spent most of his childhood.

[3][4] After graduating, Hodgson spent the next five years in Austria-Hungary as English tutor to Franz Joseph, son of the Prince of Thurn and Taxis.

In order to dispel some of the ignorance the English had about the region, he wrote two books on his travels there, which were copiously illustrated by Princess Marie of Thurn and Taxis (1855–1934).

[1][5] In 1902 Hodgson co-wrote, with Florence Darnley, the wife of the English Test cricket captain Ivo Bligh, a romantic novel titled Elma Trevor.

In the novel, which is set partly in Austria, the eponymous heroine, "loved by one man ... marrie[s] another, and in the end discovers that she is made for a third".