English Cultural Week Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 2015
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Transcript of English Cultural Week Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 2015
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”