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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Biography

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Complete Works

Name

Born

Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle

Died

22 May 1859 Edinburgh, Scotland

7 July 1930 (aged 71) Crowborough, East Sussex, England

Occupation

Novelist, short story writer, poet, physician

Nationality

Scottish

Citizenship

British

Genres

Detective fiction, fantasy, science fiction, historical novels, nonfiction

Notable

Signature

Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World

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Arthur Conan Doyle was born 22 May 1859 in the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh.

His father Charles E. Doyle was an artist and architect by profession. He drank a lot and earned little. He died young and the Doyles were poor.

Arthur 4 years

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After leaving school Conan Doyle became a student of the medical faculty at the university of Edinburgh.

Arthur worked as an assistant pharmacist to help his family.

As the ship's doctor he traveled to the Arctic and West Africa.

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He began his medical practice in a small English town Southsea. His spare time he devoted literature.

In August 1885 he married Louise Hawkins a sister of one of his rare patients. They had two children Mary Louise and Kingsley and strongly encouraged him to persevere in literature.

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In 1887, he wrote his first detective story "A Study in Scarlet".

The main characters were Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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In December 1899 the Anglo-Boer War began. Conan Doyle went to Africa as a military doctor. Then he wrote a book "The Great Boer War".

In 1902 King Edward VII gave Arthur Conan Doyle knightly name and the title "Sir".

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1894. Family portrait.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Foyle Mary, the mother of the writer

Conan Doyle's first wife Louise

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Jean Leckie was Doyle's second wife in 1906.

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"Andershou" is a house of Arthur Conan Doyle in the countryside Hayndhede. The writer lived here for ten years. These were the years of his creative

career and popularity.

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Beside detective stories Conan Doyle also wrote historic novels. His two fantastic stories “ The lost world” (1912) and “ The Poison Belt ” (1913) were quite successful.

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All his life Conan Doyle liked sport. He skied, played golf and went in for boxing.

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Writer and his family traveled a lot.

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Arthur Conan Doyle died in July 7 in 1930. He was buried in Minstead Hampshire.

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Doyle statue in  Crowborough , East Sussex.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Chronology

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Conan Doyle wrote his first story about Sherlock Holmes in 1887. In this story the detective met his friend Dr. Watson. Holmes and Watson lived at 221-В Baker Street in London.

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes had four novels: "A Study in Scarlet" (1887), "The Sign of Four" (1890), "Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Valley of Fear" – and five collections of short stories, the most famous of which – "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1892), "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" (1894) and "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" (1905).

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The popularity of Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion and biographer Dr. Watson became a legend, the center of which is an apartment in London in Baker Street 221B.

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Museum literary hero

There is Sherlock Holmes Museum in London. It was reconstituted as described in the books.

Baker - Street 221b

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In Russia the film about Sherlock Holmes is very popular.

The best acting duo –

Vasily Livanov (Holmes)

and

Vitaly Solomin (Watson)

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The statue of Sherlock Holmes in Edinburgh is opposite the birthplace of Doyle which was demolished.

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1912 : Publication of

"The Lost World".

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1913 : Publication of

"The Poison Belt".

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Arthur Conan Doyle wrote more than 200 works.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

Complete Works

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