He was knighted for his journalistic work during the Second Boer War, not for his achievements in fiction, law, or medicine. Among other achievements, his legal campaigning led to the establishment of the Court of Criminal Appeal. There’s more to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle than Sherlock Holmes. It’s hardly surprising that the sleuth’s popularity inspired a raft of other writers to create rivals to Sherlock Holmes.ġ0. Sherlock Holmes is the most-filmed fictional character. According to IMDb, Holmes has appeared in 226 films and been played by dozens of different actors since the advent of cinema in the late nineteenth century. Sidney Paget, who drew the illustrations, had Holmes wearing a deerstalker when the detective went into the country to investigate mysteries at country houses and in small rural villages, but most people think of the detective as always donning the hat when off to investigate a case.ĥ. It is when the stories began to appear that Sherlock Holmes became a worldwide sensation. Much. The famous image of Holmes wearing a deerstalker hat is a product of the celebrated images which accompanied the short stories, which appeared in the Strand magazine from 1891 (beginning with the wonderful story ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’). Sherlock Holmes didn’t wear a deerstalker. Wilde, who was also present, also agreed to write a novel for the magazine – his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, which appeared in 1890, the same year as The Sign of the Four, Doyle’s novel.Ĥ. ![]() He convinced Doyle, at a dinner party in 1889, to write a second novel featuring the detective, for serialisation in the magazine. The second Sherlock Holmes novel was the result of a dinner party with Oscar Wilde. One person who had admired the first novel was the editor Joseph Stoddart, who edited Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. It didn’t sell well, and more or less sank without trace.ģ. The novel was rejected by many publishers and eventually published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual (named after the husband of Mrs Beeton, of the book of cookery and household management). Doyle wrote the book while he was running a struggling doctor’s surgery down in Portsmouth. Auguste Dupin, two of whose adventures we include in our pick of Poe’s best short stories. Famously, Doyle was inspired by a real-life lecturer of his at the University of Edinburgh, Dr Joseph Bell, who could diagnose patients simply by looking at them when they walked into his surgery the other important influence on the creation of Sherlock Holmes was Edgar Allan Poe’s fictional detective, C. The detective made his debut in the novel A Study in Scarlet (1887), written by a twenty-seven-year-old Doyle in just three weeks. ![]() The first Sherlock Holmes novel was something of a flop. For more on the creation of Holmes, see the detailed ‘Introduction’ in The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes.Ģ. Doyle was also a keen cricketer himself, and between 18 he played ten first-class matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club – quite fitting, since Baker Street is situated in the Marylebone district of London. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created Holmes (of course), was a fan of cricket and the name ‘Sherlock’ appears to have stuck in his memory. The name was altered to Sherlock, possibly because of a cricketer who bore the name. Sherlock Holmes was originally going to be called Sherrinford. For more great facts about popular fictional characters, check out our pick of the most interesting Harry Potter facts and our fascinating facts about Romeo and Juliet.ġ. If you like these facts, have a read of the sequel to this post which gathers together further little-known facts about the great sleuth. The museum features exhibits items from several different adaptations of Sherlock Holmes, and recreations of scenes from the 1984 Granada Television series Sherlock Holmes.This post is the first part of a two-part bumper post featuring interesting facts about Sherlock Holmes. It covers the period of 1881 to 1904 when the stories describe Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson residing there as tenants of Mrs Hudson.The house is listed Grade 2 by the Government because of its special architectural and historical features. It was formerly used as a boarding house from 1860 to 1936. ![]() The Georgian town house which the museum occupies as "221B Baker Street" was built in 1815. ![]() It opened in 1990 and is situated in Baker Street, bearing the number 221B by permission of the City of Westminster, although it lies between numbers 237 and 241, near the north end of Baker Street in central London close to Regent's Park. It is the world's first museum dedicated to the literary character Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Museum is a privately run museum in London, England, dedicated to the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
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