Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom into a poor Irish Catholic family. Although his grades were not the best, Doyle’s parents were able to send him to medical school. In addition to being poor, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s home life was miserable, so he used the university as a sanctuary to get away from his cruel conditions. At the University of Edinburgh, Doyle’s professor and later inspiration, was Dr. Joseph Bell. Dr. Bell had astounding powers of deduction which he used to in addition to his medical experience as surgeon to examine many crime scenes. Bell’s awe-inspiring abilities will later become Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s source of inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. As time moved on and Doyle continues to fall short in his medical career, he begins to write short stories to make ends meet. After having many of his works published in a local magazine, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writes his first Sherlock Holmes story. Sherlock Holmes instantly became a huge success who captivated its readers with his incredible powers of deduction. With the fame of Holmes, came more demands for Doyle to write more stories. In contrast to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle becoming a huge success, no one knew that the beloved character was based on a real man. Doyle’s inspiration for Sherlock Holmes finally comes to light in an interview with the press. Little did Doyle know that his gratitude would soon become Dr. Bell’s curse. Following the

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had a hard life at home, although he had a loving mother his father was an alcoholic, “The Effect of his father alcoholism on Conan Doyle’s childhood may be seen in much of his later writing” (Stevenson). Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did not expect to write and become well known in the genre of mystery fiction his, “dream was to become a great historical novelist like Sir Walter Scott. Doyle really wanted to be writing in other, more respectable genres. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the Holmes stories mainly to earn money” (Heller). Conan Doyle faced a lot of opposition but it did not stop him creating numerous writings, “ He wanted to write something that would make his

"Lord help my poor soul."(Neurotic Poets)The departing words of the 40-year-old American author, Edgar Allan Poe, on Sunday October 7, 1849. In Massachusetts on the 19th day of January in the year 1809, Edgar Poe was born to actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe Junior, making him an older brother to Rosalie Poe, and a younger one to William Henry Leonard Poe. Poe may, perchance, have been named after a character in the play that his parents were performing that year. He was never formally adopted, however, Edgar Poe was renamed Edgar Allan Poe when the John Allan family took him in after his mother deceased and his father forsook the family. The purpose of this paper is to examine the disheartening life of such an

Holmes had everything he could ever want, which was great for him of course. His childhood was very privileged, and he enjoyed it. People told his family that he was a very intelligent kid for his age. Holmes was treated well. As he grew up, he got interested in the art of medicine. He graduated from the University of Michigan. Holmes was married twice. Holmes was treated well there as well. He passed his exam to practice medicine. He was always treated well, he was smart. He was looked as an equal. This led Holmes to animal experiment and also used corpses as experimental subjects. Holmes also stole corpses and used them to make fake insurance claims. There were rumors that indicates that he was responsible for his friend’s death. That was the first rumored victim of Homes later on he got a job in a pharmacy. Which Holmes convinced the pharmacy wife’s owner to sell him the pharmacy due to his suppose claims that the owner had “passed away”, and it was rumored that he killed the owner of the pharmacy. Then one day the wife went missing, to which Holmes claimed that she had moved to California. But it’s

The life experiences and writings of the Victorians are peppered with anxiety.  External influences such as sweeping change or fear of change can produce unease, as seen in the their anxious attitude toward Darwinism and colonialization, which greatly influenced the political, spiritual, and psychological landscape of nineteenth century England.  However, for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll, anxiety springs from an internal source: the human mind and its many urges.  For Jekyll, the anxiety is fueled by a desire to set free his evil urges; for Holmes, the catalyst is his proclaimed "boredom" with everyday life.

The author, Edgar Allan Poe, was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts to traveling actors David Poe, Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe. He was the second child of three children or otherwise stated as the middle child. His older brother, William Henry Leonard Poe also became a poet and his younger sister, Rosalie Poe taught penmanship at Richmond girls’ school. In 1810, Edgar’s father David Poe Jr. left the family, leaving them in poverty. His mother, Elizabeth Hopkins Poe died of pulmonary tuberculosis when Edgar was at the age of three. Poe was sent away to live under the roof of John Allan, who was a considerably wealthy merchant and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia. His siblings were sent to live with other foster parents.

Edgar Allen Poe, born is 1809, was an American short story writer, poet, and critic. He is commonly know as the father of detective stories. His most well know work of art is his poem "The Raven" (Werlock). Although Poe had a short lived career, his literature continues to influence many writers in the United States and Europe. He worked with many genres such as: gothic tale, science fiction, occult fantasies, and satire. While many critics consider his works of literature as grotesque, others consider his as the most influential author of modern fiction.

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 to Elizabeth Allan Poe and David Poe, Jr., a Scotch-Irish family in Boston, Massachusetts. Edger was an American artist, short story author, manager and commentator and one of the pioneers of the American Romantics. He is best known for his stories of the grotesque and his ballads, and being one of the early specialists of the short story and a forebear of investigator fiction, and wrongdoing fiction in the United States. Edgar parents and grandfather was well known.

Quote analysis: Holmes wouldn’t just take a supernatural thing happening as an explanation for his case. This is a testament to how dedicated holmes is, he will exhaust every lead, check every detail before he’s done.

In Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Christopher Boone the protagonist has suggested that he is very similar to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Character, Sherlock Holmes.

In this project, I will be discussing about my poet Edgar Allan Poe. Poe had written numerous of poems and stories but the one I chose was “Annabel Lee”. This poem was written in 1849 which was a long time ago. Even though this poem is centuries old, it is still a well known poem. This whole project includes a biography, literary movement, and a explication about the poem.

With his vast creative talents, Poe captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world. Also,his talents then led on to the beginning of different literary genres, “earning him the nickname “Father of the Detective Story” among other distinctions” (Biography.com). Poe's life, however, has become a bit of a mystery itself. And the lines between fact and fiction have been blurred substantially since his death.

I believed that he wrote these mysteries based on his own life. I later found out that Doyle was not a detective, he was actually a doctor. According to the Norton Anthology, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had studied medicine at the University of Edinburg. During his time there he was educated by Joseph Bell. Bell was Doyle’s inspiration to begin writing the Sherlock Holmes series, he had the ability to conclude his patient’s previous occupations, histories and ailment and illness all within a one-minute checkup. Doyle published his first writing at the age of twenty in the Edinburg Journal, while also studying composition. Following his years at medical school, Doyle became a ship doctor that was on a voyage to West Africa, when he returned he had opened a medical practice on the South Coast of England. Doyle found himself with plenty of time after opening his practice and this is when he began to write the famous Sherlock Holmes detective stories. The first Sherlock Holmes story was published in 1890 and ran in, The Strand Magazine. Sherlock Holmes was an immediate success and the readers were left wanting more and more from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Shortly after the Sherlock Holmes stories had begun, Doyle had decided that he no longer wanted to write them anymore, he said “I must save my mind for better things even if that means I must bury my pocket” (pg.

The Final Problem written in 1893 was originally planned to be the very last story featuring Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had intended to finally kill Holmes so that it would allow to “save his mind for better things” (Lellenberg, Stashower, and Foley). He felt that he – as an author, at least - had been making a massive step in the wrong direction and his development as a writer had been non-existent and stagnant. However, knowing that killing the hero who single-handedly took his popularity to new heights would result in him recveiving heavy backlash from outraged readers,

The Sherlock Holmes stories are filled with many elements varying with mystery, adventure, and most of the times death. These stories entertained many in the late 1800s with these elements. Doyle’s stories on Holmes still remain the best of the genre (Gaydosik 121). The Homes character brought entertainment into people’s lives by his mystery solving.