*Rough* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a Scottish physician and writer whose works included science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry and non-fiction, but most of all, most famous for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived in the modern era. Many major events caused the Western world to change around the turn of the 16th century, starting with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the fall of Muslim Spain and the discovery of the Americas in 1492, and Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation in 1517.

The Doyles were a wealthy Irish-Catholic family, who had a prominent position in the world of Art. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was a chronic alcoholic who had an erratic behaviour, which lead to a poor support of money during Arthur’s upbringing whereas Mary was a devoted mother, and a fantastic storyteller, who filled his childhood with wonderful tales she had invented.

The wealthy members of the Doyle family offered to pay for his studies in England after his ninth birthday. He had to go to a Jesuit boarding school for seven years. Arthur loathed the bigotry surrounding his studies and rebelled at physical punishment, which as widespread and incredibly fierce in most English schools of that period. He realized he had a talent in storytelling and his habit was writing letters to his mother. The theme the author wrote about was mystery/ problem solving; The genre the author wrote about was mainly mystery fiction/detective novels, a lot of dealing with logics, human nature and knowledge that normal people wouldn’t notice and miss easily (not only seeing but observing even the tiniest things) and its ability to link facts to science.

His most famous work is Sherlock Holmes. His medical practice was not very successful; while waiting for patients, Conan Doyle again began writing stories. He published in his lifetime at the age of 28 in 1887, ‘A Study in Scarlet’. It featured the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes, who was partially modelled after his former university professor Joseph Bell. When Sherlock Holmes was highly successful, Conan Doyle decided to focus on his writing and gave up in his medical studies. Some of the author’s most famous works also include ___________________. His achievements were _________________________. The legacy this author left with his writing was ____________. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was influenced by___________________ and influenced ______________________.

In 1885 Conan Doyle married Louisa Hawkins. She suffered from tuberculosis and died on 4 July 1906. The next year he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie, whom he had first met and fallen in love with in 1897. He had maintained a relationship with Jean while Louisa was still alive, out of loyalty to her. Jean died in London on 27 June 1940. He fathered five children.

Conan Doyle was found clutching his chest in the hall of Windlesham, his house in Crowborough, East Sussex, on 7 July 1930. He died of a heart attack at age 71. His last words were directed toward his wife: "You are wonderful." The epitaph on his gravestone in the churchyard at Minstead in the New Forest, Hampshire, reads: “Steel true Blade straight Arthur Coanan