Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Standard Name: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Birth Name: Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Self-constructed Name: A. Conan Doyle
Titled: Sir
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was a journalist, novelist, and short-story writer, a scientific, medical, and spiritualist writer, and an autobiographer. His fame rests on his creation of the detective-hero Sherlock Holmes, whose adventures filled nine volumes when collected.
Redmond, Christopher. A Sherlock Holmes Handbook. Dundurn Press.
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Friends, Associates Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Maxwells had frequent house guests and entertained regularly at both their houses. Later friends and acquaintances included Robert Browning , Mary Cholmondeley , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Ford Madox Ford , Thomas Hardy
Friends, Associates Katherine Cecil Thurston
Through the New Vagabonds Club , KCT may have met several other prominent authors of the day, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Grant Allen , Pearl Craigie (who went by the pseudonym John Oliver...
Friends, Associates Rudyard Kipling
Kipling's fame brought easy acquaintances with celebrities. In November 1894, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stayed as a guest in his American home. On the death in Samoa of Robert Louis Stevenson (whom he had never...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Agnes Hamilton
Apart from teaching his children outdoor skills on family holidays, he walked Mary Agnes daily to her first school in Aberdeen, talking with her all the way as to an intellectual equal, and dropping words...
Education Enid Bagnold
This small, progressive school, which emphasized the study of art, literature, and theatre, was founded and headed by Julia (Mrs Leonard) Huxley , mother of Aldous Huxley and sister of the novelist Mary Augusta Ward
Education Sophia Jex-Blake
Her admission was strongly opposed by many faculty members on the basis of gender, but most fervently by Sir Robert Christison . Jex-Blake had some supporters within the faculty as well, including Professor David Masson

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