English Cultural Week Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 2015

1. ENGLISH CULTURAL
WEEK
3RD EDITION
2ND – 6TH FEBRUARY 2015

2. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
1859-1930

3. WHO IS SIR
ARTHUR CONAN
DOYLE?

4. 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

5. 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

6. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
WHEN DOYLE
gRADUATED fROm
STONYHURST COLLEgE
IN 1876, HE DECIDED TO
pURSUE A mEDICAL
DEgREE AT THE
UNIvERSITY Of
EDINbURgH.

7. DOYLE WOULD LATER gIvE Up
mEDICINE ALTOgETHER, IN
ORDER TO DEvOTE ALL Of HIS
ATTENTION TO HIS WRITINg
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
bOOkS

16. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

17. 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

18. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
E HELpED TO pOpULARISE SkIINg
E BELIEvED IN FAIRIES
IR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE DIDN'T JUST wRITE
mYSTERIES, HE ACTUALLY SOLvED A FEw
OYLE DIED HOLDINg A FLOwER

19. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
“TO A gREAT
mIND, NOTHINg IS
LITTLE”