When was arthur conan doyle born

All told, Doyle wrote fifty-six Sherlock Holmes stories and four novels. The Valley of Fear was the last. Among other works published early in Doyle's career were Beyond the City , a short novel of modern city life; The Great Shadow , a historical novel of the Napoleonic period; The Refugees , a historical novel about French Huguenots; and The Stark Munro Letters , an autobiographical having to do with one's life novel.

In he issued one of his best-known historical novels, Rodney Stone, which was followed by another historical novel, Uncle Bernac ; a collection of poems, Songs of Action ; and two less popular novels, The Tragedy of Korosko and A Duet After the outbreak of the Boer War —; a war between the British and the northern natives or Boers of South Africa for control of the area, which the British won , Doyle served as chief, or head, surgeon of a field hospital at Bloemfontein, South Africa, in His The Great Boer War was widely read and praised for its fairness to both sides.

In August Doyle was knighted for his service to England. Doyle published Sir Nigel , a popular historical novel of the Middle Ages. His wife died this same year of tuberculosis an infectious disease that affects the lungs ; and in Doyle married Jean Leckie.

Doyle now took up a number of political and charitable causes. In he wrote Divorce Law Reform, supporting equal rights for women in British law, and The Crime of the Congo, attacking the mistreatment of that colony by Belgium.

In he published a second collection of poems, Songs of the Road, and in began a series of science fiction stories with the novel The Lost World, featuring another of his famous characters, Professor Challenger.

In he published A Visit to Three Fronts and in again toured the front lines. These tours, plus extensive communication with a number of officers, enabled him to write his famous account The British Campaigns in France and Flanders, published in six volumes — Doyle had been interested in spiritualism the belief in the ability for the living to communicate with the dead since he rejected his Roman Catholic faith in In he experienced a new belief in "psychic religion," or spiritualism, so that after the war he devoted the rest of his life and career to spreading his new faith in a series of works: The New Revelation , The Vital Message , The Wanderings of a Spiritualist , and History of Spiritualism After travelling for years to promote this cause, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on July 6, , of a heart attack, at his home in Crowborough, Sussex.

Booth, Martin. When his funds were nearly tapped out, he relocated to Portsmouth and opened his first practice. He spent the next few years struggling to balance his burgeoning medical career with his efforts to gain recognition as an author. Doyle would later give up medicine altogether, in order to devote all of his attention to his writing and his faith. In , 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.

In , Louisa was diagnosed with tuberculosis. While Louisa was ailing, Doyle developed an affection for a young woman named Jean Leckie. Louisa ultimately died of tuberculosis in Doyle's arms, in The following year, Doyle would remarry to Jean Leckie, with whom he would have two sons and a daughter.

In , newly married and still struggling to make it as an author, Doyle started writing the mystery novel A Tangled Skein. 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.

Also, in , Doyle submitted two letters about his conversion to Spiritualism to a weekly periodical called Light. Doyle continued to actively participate in the Spiritualist movement from to , during which time he wrote three books that experts consider largely autobiographical.

Upon achieving success as a writer, Doyle decided to retire from medicine. Throughout this period, he additionally produced a handful of historical novels including one about the Napoleonic Era called The Great Shadow in , and his most famous historical novel, Rodney Stone , in In , to Doyle's readers' disdain, he had attempted to kill off his Sherlock Holmes character in order to focus more on writing about Spiritualism.

In , however, Doyle reintroduced Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of Baskervilles and later brought him back to life in The Adventure of the Empty House so the lucrative character could earn Doyle the money to fund his missionary work. Doyle also strove to spread his faith through a series of written works, consisting of The New Revolution , The Vital Message , The Wanderings of a Spiritualist and History of Spiritualism Having recently been diagnosed with Angina Pectoris, Doyle stubbornly ignored his doctor's warnings, and in the fall of , embarked on a spiritualism tour through the Netherlands.

He returned home with chest pains so severe that he needed to be carried on shore and was thereafter almost entirely bedridden at his home in Crowborough, England. In Doyle set up a medical practice in Southsea, near Portsmouth, and started writing in earnest.

This marked the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes. Bell had always emphasised the importance of close observation in making a diagnosis and his party-piece was to pick a stranger and, through observation, deduce his occupation and recent activities. During this period, Doyle was also instrumental in setting up Portsmouth Football Club, and served as its first goalkeeper. In he met his first wife Louise Hawkins, who died of tuberculosis in He married his second wife, Jean Leckie, in In all Doyle had five children, two from his first marriage and three from his second.

Following a period of study in Vienna in , Doyle set up in practice as an oculist in London in By now he was a highly successful author, but wrote in a letter to his mother: "I think of slaying Holmes He takes my mind from better things.