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.
Harriet Martineau
was amazed when AM
first read her one of these tales, The Admiral's Daughter, and felt that their hostess later that evening (Sarah Wedgwood
) must have been almost equally amazed...
Maunder, Andrew. “Introduction”. The Fate of Fenella, Valancourt Books, p. vii - xxiii.
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Mathers, Helen et al. The Fate of Fenella. Cassell.
titlepage
“Summary of News”. The British Architect, pp. 407-8.
408
Textual Production
Sir J. M. Barrie
James Barrie
's fifth play, Becky Sharp (titled from the protagonist of Thackeray
's Vanity Fair), was first performed. Also this year he collaborated with Arthur Conan Doyle
on a libretto for Jane Annie.
“Peter Pan: a selling exhibition of memorabilia”. C20th.com.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
In 1892 JF
contributed chapter twelve to a collaboratively-written novel entitled The Fate of Fenella (along with twenty-three other authors including Helen Mathers
, Frances Eleanor Trollope
, Conan Doyle
and Bram Stoker
).
Frankau, Reuben. Emails to Orlando about Julia Frankau, with attached bibliography.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Agatha Christie
Although AC
was supposed to be writing propaganda, her opinions on her own chosen genre were too strong to be muzzled. Having begun with praise of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
, John Dickson Carr
...