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Apr 11, 2015 · Conan Doyle was a doctor, a famous author and married. While he could not deny what he felt for Jean, his code of honor prevented him from acting on it. They couldn’t be together, but they couldn’t be apart.
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Title page from Arthur Conan Doyle's thesis. Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. [5][6] His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was born in England, of Irish Catholic descent, and his mother, Mary (née Foley), was Irish Catholic. His parents married in 1855. [7]
Sep 16, 2024 · Conan Doyle married Louisa Hawkins in 1885, and together they had two children, Mary and Kingsley. A year after Louisa’s death in 1906, he married Jean Leckie and with her had three children, Denis, Adrian, and Jean.
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- The Boer War
- Second Marriage
- World War I
- Spiritualism
Birth, Family. Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 may 1859, at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. His mother, Mary Josephine Foley, was Irish and descendant of the famous Percy family of Northumberland, in the line of Plantagenet. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was a not very ambitious officer with some artistic talent . When he lost his job, ...
Hodder, Stonyhurst, Feldkirch. His education began at home and in a small Edinburgh school. At nine, he entered the Jesuit college Hodder in Lancashire to prepare his admission to the Stonyhurst College. He succeeded two years later and was already interested about literature like Walter Scott, Jules Verne or Macaulay. He even founded a little maga...
University, Joseph Bell, Professor Rutherford, First short stories. In 1876, he began his medical studies at the University of Edinburgh. There he met two men who influenced the choice of his future novel heroes. Professor Rutherford, whose Assyrian beard, booming voice and broad chest, inspired him Professor George Edward Challenger and Dr. Joseph...
Hope, Mayumba, Medical practice, Dr. George Turnavine Budd, Ophtalmology. Alongside his studies, Arthur tried to earn some money to help his family. In 1880, he worked as a medical assistant in Sheffield, Birmingham and Shropshire and doctor aboard a whaler, the Hope, in Greenland. On 22 october 1881, he graduated and enlisted as a doctor aboard a ...
Louisa Hawkins, Mary Louise Conan Doyle, Kingsley Conan Doyle, The Firm of Girdlestone, A Study in Scarlet, Micah Clarke, Vienna. In august 1885, he married Louisa Hawkins ("Touie"), the sister of one of his rare patients. She gave him two children (Mary Louise and Kingsley) and encouraged him to persevere in literature. He followed her advice beca...
Sherlock Holmes, Lecture tour in USA, Davos, A Story of Waterloo, Egypt. In january 1891, discovering the first issue of The Strand Magazine, he decided to write to the publisher and proposed new adventures of the detective as short stories, including A Scandal in Bohemia and The Red-Headed League. He then provided five other short stories and rene...
The Great Boer War, Political adventures, The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct, Knighthood, The Edalji Case. In october 1899, war broke out between England and African Orange and Transvaal Republics in South Africa. Conan Doyle engaged in december. Unfortunately, the Middlesex Yeomanry Regiment put him on a waiting list. Meanwhile, a frie...
Jean Leckie, Denis, Adrian and (Lena) Jean, The Crime of the Congo, Oscar Slater, The Prince Henry Tour, The Lost World. In september 1907, Conan Doyle married Jean Elizabeth Leckie with whom he was in love since 1897 but always maintained a friendly relationship in respect for his wife. He moved to Crowborough in Sussex, where Jean gave him three ...
To Arms!, Volunteers, Sir Roger Casement, Spiritualism. When World War I broke out in 1914, Conan Doyle formed a local volunteer unit that would later become officially The Crowborough Company of the 6th Royal Sussex Volunteer Regiment, where he served as second class. But when he wanted to go to the front, this "privilege" was refused due to his a...
In october 1916, Conan Doyle announced in the journal Lighthis conversion to spiritualism. During the last years of his life, he became the "crusader" of this movement that preaches salvation of humanity through science. Thus, from 1920 to 1923, he gave a series of lectures about spiritualism in Australia, in USA and in Canada. He published his aut...
'Sherlock Holmes' Married The Leeds Mercury (19 september 1907, p. 4) MARRIAGE OF SIR A. CONAN DOYLE. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the well-known novelist and inventor of "Sherlock Holmes," and his bride leaving St. Margaret's, Westminster, yesterday, after the wedding ceremony. 'SHERLOCK HOLMES' MARRIED. Quiet Wedding at Westminster. BEAUTIFUL DRESSES.
Shortly after the death of his wife, Conan Doyle married Jean Leckie (1872-1940), a beautiful daughter of a wealthy Scottish family, who rode horses, hunted, and had trained as a singer. (Pascal 94) She turned out to be the greatest love of his life.
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Jean Leckie (1906) Jean Elizabeth Leckie (14 march 1874 - 27 june 1940) was the second wife of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They married on 18 september 1907, but Conan Doyle was in love with her since 1897, a platonic love until the death of his first wife in 1906. They installed in Crowborough (Sussex), where she gave him 3 children (Denis in 1909
