The Speckled Band and Lamb to the slaughter :: English Literature

Discussing The dashed Band and Lamb to the slaughter.British writer, creator Sherlock Holmes, the best-known research worker inliterature and the embodiment of sharp reasoning. Doyle himself wasnot a corking example of rational personality he believed in fairies andwas arouse in occultism. Sherlock Holmes stories have beentranslated into more than fifty langu epochs, and made into plays, films,radio and idiot box series, a musical comedy, a ballet, cartoons,comic books, and advertisement. By 1920 Doyle was one of the abouthighly paid writers in the world.--This is indeed a mystery, I remarked. What do you imagine that itmeans?--I have no data yet. It is a uppercase mistake to theorise before onehas data. Insensibly one begins to wriggle facts to suit theories,instead of theories to suit facts...--(from A Scandal in Bohemia, 1891)Arthur Conan Doyle was born at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, as the son ofCharles Altamont Doyle, a civil servant in the Edinburgh component ofWorks, an d Mary (Foley) Doyle. Both of Doyles parents were RomanCatholics. To increase his income Charles Altamont painted, made bookillustrations, and also worked as a sketch artist on criminal trials. non long after arriving Edinburgh he started to drink, he sufferedfrom epilepsy and was eventually institutionalized. Doyles mother wasinterested in literature, and she encouraged his son to take to books.Doyle claim voluminously. At the age of fourteen he had learned Frenchso that he read Jules Verne in the authors original language. LaterDoyles second wife, Jean, said My husbands mother was a veryremarkable and highly cultured woman. She had a dominant personality, absorbed up on the most charming womanly exterior. Charles Altamotdied in an introduction in 1893 in the same year Doyle decided to finish for good the adventures of his master detective. Because offinancial problems, Doyles mother kept a boarding house. Dr. TsukasaKobayashi has alluded in an article, that Doyles mother had a longaffair with Bryan Charles Waller, a lodger and a student of pathology,who had a deep impact to Conan Doyle.Doyle was educated in Jesuit schools. During this period Doyle losthis belief in the Roman Catholic reliance but the training of the Jesuitsinfluenced deeply his mental development. Later he utilise his friendsand teachers from Stonyhurst College as models for his characters inthe Holmes stories, among them two boys named Moriarty. He studied atEdinburgh University and in 1884 he married Louise Hawkins. Doylequalified as doctor in 1885. afterwards graduation Doyle practiced medicineas an eye specialist at Southsea near Porsmouth in Hampshire until1891 when he became a full time writer.