The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Original 1892 Collection of Short Stories

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While living in Switzerland, Doyle became interested in skiing, which was relatively unknown in Switzerland at the time. He wrote an article, "An Alpine Pass on 'Ski '" for the December 1894 issue of The Strand Magazine, [61] in which he described his experiences with skiing and the beautiful alpine scenery that could be seen in the process. The article popularised the activity and began the long association between Switzerland and skiing. [62] Family life Doyle with his family c. 1923–1925 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle house development appeal upheld". BBC News. 12 November 2012. Archived from the original on 16 November 2012. Stashower, Daniel (1999). Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. Henry Holt & Company. "A Spiritualist researcher named W. Leslie Curnow contributed a great deal of material and wrote some of the chapters, which Conan Doyle freely admits in the book's preface." Crossley, Frankie (17 August 2017). "Blur guitarist leads fight to save Camden Road Spiritualist Temple". Hampstead Highgate Express.

Panek, LeRoy Lad (1987). An Introduction to the Detective Story. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. p.78. ISBN 0-87972-377-7. And again I wondered just what Doyle intended here. Sarcasm? Irony? Broad comedy? A cutting social discourse that sometimes feels for and sometimes feels against the ideas spouted by the modern woman? I don't know and it doesn't really matter, does it. There will always be people who insist on women fulfilling their mission, just as there will always be women who choose their own I very much feared that Conan Doyle, who in photographs looks like the very personification of Victorian chauvinism, would stoop to patronising her militant feminist views, maybe even use the story to teach her a lesson, but to his credit he did nothing of the sort. Knapton, Sarah (10 August 2016). "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle cleared of Piltdown Man hoax". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022.Liberton Bank House, 1, Gilmerton Road, Edinburgh". Register for Scotland: Buildings at Risk . Retrieved 28 April 2020. Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. [5] [6] His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was born in England, of Irish Catholic descent, and his mother, Mary (née Foley), was Irish Catholic. His parents married in 1855. [7] In 1864 the family scattered because of Charles's growing alcoholism, and the children were temporarily housed across Edinburgh. Arthur lodged with Mary Burton, the aunt of a friend, at Liberton Bank House on Gilmerton Road, while studying at Newington Academy. [8]

Doyle, Arthur Conan (20 September 1879). "Arthur Conan Doyle takes it to the limit (1879)". BMJ. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 339: b2861. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b2861. S2CID 220100995. Archived from the original on 4 February 2014 . Retrieved 2 February 2014. (subscription required) John Openshaw tells Holmes that in 1883 his uncle died two months after receiving a letter inscribed "K.K.K." with five orange pips enclosed, and that in 1885 his father died soon after receiving a similar letter.Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)". librarything.com. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014 . Retrieved 17 March 2012.

Captain Philip Trevor (June 1901). "A British Commando". The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020 . Retrieved 13 October 2022. Golgotha Press (2011). The Life and Times of Arthur Conan Doyle. BookCaps Study Guides. ISBN 978-1-62107-027-6. In time, he would reject the Catholic religion and become an agnostic. In 1916, at the height of the First World War, Doyle's belief in psychic phenomena was strengthened by what he took to be the psychic abilities of his children's nanny, Lily Loder Symonds. [87] This and the constant drumbeat of wartime deaths inspired him with the idea that spiritualism was what he called a "New Revelation" [88] sent by God to bring solace to the bereaved. He wrote a piece in Light magazine about his faith and began lecturing frequently on spiritualism. In 1918, he published his first spiritualist work, The New Revelation.Lord Robert St. Simon's new American bride, Hatty Doran, has disappeared almost immediately after the wedding.