Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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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attended a meeting of 8,000 spiritualists in the Albert Hall in London; speakers included Conan Doyle
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Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
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Friends, Associates
Flora Thompson
Grayshott offered more extensive opportunities. As well as offering the usual library and penny readings, it was a centre for literary celebrities. During her work in the post-office FT
observed and caught snatches of the...
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...
Literary responses
Mary Augusta Ward
Arthur Conan Doyle
considered this novel better than anything George Eliot
had written.
Despite the vicissitudes in the sales of her fiction, MAW
remained a major public figure from the time of Robert Elsmere's success until her death. Her popularity was in large part due to her...