Arthur Conan Doyle

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ArthurConan Doyle

FAMILY

Father: Charles Altamont DoyleMother: Mary Foley He had 7 sisters and 1 brother. He had two wives: Louisa Hawkins, Jean Elizabeth Leckie. He had two children from first wife, and three children from his second wife.

EDUCATION

University of Edinburgh

Stonyhurst College

Roman Catholic Jesuitpreparatory school

Stella Matutina Jesuit School

origins of sherlock holmes

Joseph Bell was a surgeon in Endinburgh Hospital, and Conan Doyle got a motif of Sherlock Holmes from him.Name of Sherlock Holmes is from Oliver Wendell Holmes who is a doctor and a social reformer in England.

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ArthurConan Doyle

OTHER WRITINGBESIDES SHERLOCK HOLMES

He was a novelist who wrote 242 novels before he died, and a poet who wrote 104 poems.- His first novel was The Mystery of Cloomber.- He also wrote SF novels like The Maracot Deep and other Stories or The Lost World.

- One of the poems that he wrote as a letter format to his mother called, A Student's Dream.- He also wrote his autobiography called, Memories and Adventures

LIFE AFTER HOLMES

After Conan Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes, whol England mourned and made a petition. Therefore, he brought Holmes back to life. In 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle ended Sherlock Holmes series and wrote about psychology and fairy which is less popular to audiences.

* Almost at the end of his life, he started to believe spiritualism, but he wrote Holmes as a person who criticizes about spiritualism. Even though the author got into spiritualism, Conan Doyle kept the character's trait.