ENGLISH CULTURAL WEEK

3RD EDITION2ND – 6TH FEBRUARY 2015

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE1859-1930

WHO IS SIR ARTHUR CONAN

DOYLE?

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

SIR ARTHUR IGNATIUS CONAN DOYLE WAS A SCOTTISH WRITER AND pHYSICIAN, mOST NOTED FOR HIS FICTIONAL STORIES ABOUT THE DETECTIvE SHERLOCK HOLmES

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

AT THE AGE OF 9, DOYLE BID A TEARFUL GOODBYE TO HIS pARENTS AND WAS SHIppED OFF TO ENGLAND, WHERE HE WOULD ATTEND HODDER pLACE, STONYHURST

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

WHEN DOYLE gRADUATED fROm STONYHURST COLLEgE IN 1876, HE DECIDED TO pURSUE A mEDICAL DEgREE AT THE UNIvERSITY Of EDINbURgH.

DOYLE WOULD LATER gIvE Up

mEDICINE ALTOgETHER, IN

ORDER TO DEvOTE ALL Of HIS

ATTENTION TO HIS WRITINg

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

IN 1885, WHILE STILL STRUggLINg TO mAkE IT AS A WRITER, DOYLE mET AND mARRIED HIS fIRST WIfE, LOUISA HAWkINS. THE COUpLE mOvED TO UppER WImpOLE STREET AND HAD TWO CHILDREN, A DAUgHTER AND A SON

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

LOUISA ULTImATELY DIED Of

TUbERCULOSIS IN DOYLE'S ARmS, IN 1906.

THE fOLLOWINg YEAR, DOYLE WOULD

REmARRY TO JEAN LECkIE, WITH WHOm

HE WOULD HAvE TWO SONS AND A

DAUgHTER. IN 1886, NEWLY mARRIED

AND STILL STRUggLINg TO mAkE IT AS

AN AUTHOR.

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

DOYLE STARTED WRITINg THE mYSTERY NOvEL A TANgLED

SkEIN. TWO YEARS LATER, THE NOvEL WAS RENAmED A STUDY

IN SCARLET AND pUbLISHED IN bEETON'S CHRISTmAS ANNUAL.

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

A STUDY IN SCARLET, wHICH fIRST INTRODUCED THE

wILDLY pOpULAR CHARACTERS DETECTIvE SHERLOCk

HOLmES AND HIS ASSISTANT, wATSON fINALLY EARNED

DOYLE THE RECOgNITION HE HAD SO DESIRED. IT wAS THE

fIRST Of 60 STORIES THAT DOYLE wOULD pEN AbOUT

SHERLOCk HOLmES OvER THE COURSE Of HIS wRITINg

CAREER.

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

THE pOpULARITY Of SHERLOCk HOLmES wAS SUCH THAT

bECAmE IN A LITERACY mITH, A fICTION CHARACTER.

ANOTHER CHARACTER TO TAkE INTO ACCOUNT ON HIS

STORIES IS DR. wATSON. HE IS ALSO A kEY CHARACTER

SINCE HE USED TO HELp SHERLOCk TO SOLvE THE fACTS

AND CRImES.

SHERLOCk HOLmES, THE CHARACTER:

-HE wAS A vERY ObSERvANT AND ALERT mAN.

-HE wAS ENTHUSIASTIC AbOUT CHEmISTRY AND fOND Of

SmOkINg pIpES.

-HE wAS A DISgUISE ExpERT.

-HE AS vERY INTELLIgENT AND CLEvER.

-wATSON, wHO HELpED HIm TO SOLvE THE fACTS, wAS HIS

ONLY fRIEND.

-HE wAS TALL AND SLENDER.

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

bOOkS

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

FACTS ABOUT HIm… DOYLE wAS ONE OF THE EARLIEST mOTORISTS

IN BRITAIN HE wAS mADE A kNIgHT FOR HIS wORk ON A

NON-FICTION pAmpHLET REgARDINg THE BOER wAR.

DOYLE wAS ON THE SAmE CRICkET TEAm AS pETER pAN wRITER Jm BARRIE

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

HE HELpED TO pOpULARISE SkIINg

HE BELIEvED IN FAIRIES

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE DIDN'T JUST wRITE mYSTERIES, HE ACTUALLY SOLvED A FEw

DOYLE DIED HOLDINg A FLOwER

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

“TO A gREAT mIND, NOTHINg IS

LITTLE”