Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:Biography - The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, M.D., Kt, D.L., LL.D., (22 may 1859 - 7 july 1930) was a British writer with many facets : Physician, Writer, Sportsman, Poet, Politician, Justicer, Spiritualist, Campaigner, Adventurer... The following is a short overview. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote his own biography Memories and Adventures in 1923-1924. See also A Life in Pictures and A Life in Movies. Biography Childhood Birth, Family. Schools Hodder, Stonyhurst, Feldkirch. His education began at home and in a small Edinburgh school. University University, Joseph Bell, Professor Rutherford, First short stories. In 1876, he began his medical studies at the University of Edinburgh. Medical practice Hope, Mayumba, Medical practice, Dr.
Alongside his studies, Arthur tried to earn some money to help his family. On 22 october 1881, he graduated and enlisted as a doctor aboard a steamer (the SS Mayumba) to Western Africa. First marriage In 1887, he wrote his first Sherlock Holmes adventure, A Study in Scarlet. Celebrity. Sherlock Holmes' London | Arts & Culture. One summer evening in 1889, a young medical school graduate named Arthur Conan Doyle arrived by train at London’s Victoria Station and took a hansom cab two and a half miles north to the famed Langham Hotel on Upper Regent Street. Then living in obscurity in the coastal town of Southsea, near Portsmouth, the 30-year-old ophthalmologist was looking to advance his writing career. The magazine Beeton’s Christmas Annual had recently published his novel, A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the private detective Sherlock Holmes.
Now Joseph Marshall Stoddart, managing editor of Lippincott’s Monthly, a Philadelphia magazine, was in London to establish a British edition of his publication. At the suggestion of a friend, he had invited Conan Doyle to join him for dinner in the Langham’s opulent dining room. Amid the bustle of waiters, the chink of fine silver and the hum of dozens of conversations, Conan Doyle found Stoddart to be “an excellent fellow,” he would write years later. I cross St. Discovering Sherlock Holmes - A Community Reading Project From Stanford University. In 1891, Sherlock Holmes was a character very much of his time and place, who appealed to British readers directly by confronting the messy, changeable world they lived in.
Rather than dwelling in romance or in an idealized past, as many of Arthur Conan Doyle's other characters did, Holmes was grounded squarely in Victorian London. The Sherlock Holmes mystery stories, written over a forty-year span from 1887 to 1927, represented the good, the bad, and the ugly of Victorian society: its ideals, its accomplishments, and its deepest fears. Arthur Conan Doyle's birth year, 1859, fell 22 years into Queen Victoria's 64-year reign, a time of unparalleled growth and optimism for the British Empire. Resources and labor taken from colonies worldwide had made England prosper, and the time of serious independence struggles lay in the distant future. Since 1844, the government had struggled with various solutions to the sewage problem. Sherlock Holmes Background Information. The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A study in dualism: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1886 | Robert Louis Stevenson.
Enfield’s story, though, concerns Utterson. Jekyll is both a friend and a client, and Utterson knows that Hyde is connected in some mysterious way with Jekyll. In fact, in the event of his death or disappearance for more than three months, Jekyll has willed all his possessions to Hyde. Utterson decides to wait for Hyde to appear. When he sees him, Utterson is instinctively repulsed by what he feels is Hyde’s deep deformity. Almost a year passes without incident. When Utterson confronts Jekyll, his friend insists no one will ever see Hyde again. Suddenly, however, Jekyll withdraws to his home and refuses to see anyone. As the story builds to a climax, Jekyll’s butler, Poole, hurries to Utterson and begs him to come to Jekyll’s house.
Utterson and Poole search but can find no trace of Jekyll. Utterson first reads Lanyon’s letter. Utterson then turns to Jekyll’s letter. At first, Jekyll delighted in the freedom to indulge in sin as Hyde. Study and Revise Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde sample pages. Jane Austen » JASNA. As a child Austen began writing comic stories, now referred to as the Juvenilia.
Her first mature work, composed when she was about 19, was a novella, Lady Susan, written in epistolary form (as a series of letters). This early fiction was preserved by her family but was not published until long after her death. In her early twenties Austen wrote the novels that later became Sense and Sensibility (first called “Elinor and Marianne”) and Pride and Prejudice (originally “First Impressions”). Her father sent a letter offering the manuscript of “First Impressions” to a publisher soon after it was finished in 1797, but his offer was rejected by return post. Austen continued writing, revising “Elinor and Marianne” and completing a novel called “Susan” (later to become Northanger Abbey). View facsimiles of Austen's Juvenilia notebooks, including the History of England, on the Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition website.
Persuasions On-Line. Jane Austen's World : 2015 AGM Reading List » JASNA. Pride & Prejudice articles: 2013 AGM Reading List » JASNA. Although Austen's admirers have pleasure in many things, they are also great readers. The following list of essays—a small selection of the rich work available in Persuasions and Persuasions On-Line—was prepared for the bicentenary of Pride and Prejudice and served as a preview of our 2013 conference, “Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice . . . Timeless,” held in Minneapolis, MN. Elizabeth and Darcy The Bennets “‘Disarming Reproof’: Pride and Prejudice and the Power of Criticism” by Priscilla Gilman. Pemberley and Longbourn Ethical Questions and the Fictional World Jane Austen’s Development as a Writer Pride and Prejudice on Screen Joe Wright’s 2005 film Pride & Prejudice is the subject of a special edition of JASNA’s journal Persuasions On-Line Volume 27, No. 2.
Pride and Prejudice. "I want to tell you that I have got my own darling Child from London . . . The Advertisement is in our paper to day for the first time . . . . " —Jane Austen, letter to Cassandra Austen, January 29, 1813 Pride and Prejudice is one of the most popular novels in the English language. Over 200 years after its publication, it continues to win the hearts and minds of readers around the world, thanks to its delightful heroine, unforgettable cast of comic characters, witty dialog, and satisfying romantic plot. According to family tradition, Jane Austen began writing First Impressions, the novel we know today as Pride and Prejudice, in October 1796 at the age of 20. Believing his daughter’s work worthy of publication, the Rev. Jane Austen continued to write, working on early drafts of Sense and Sensibility and the novel that would later be called Northanger Abbey.
Based on the success of her first novel, Thomas Egerton offered Jane Austen £110 for the copyright to Pride and Prejudice. Reception. Pride and Prejudice: Historical Context for Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | The Core Curriculum. Portrait of George III (1738–1820) by Sir William Beechey, 1820. (Wikimedia Commons) Austen's short life encompassed the "madness of King George," the American and French revolutions and the Battle of Waterloo. Late Eighteenth-Century Britain and the Regency Period Jane Austen’s brief life and writing career overlapped with one of the most transformative eras in British history, marked by revolution abroad and unrest at home. The signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the year after Austen’s birth, signaled the start of the American Revolution, followed in the next decade by the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789. For the next two decades, Britain was engaged almost without cease in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars of 1793–1815, one of the most significant conflicts in British history.
Among the effects of England’s foreign wars during this period were great financial instability and monetary volatility. War with France The Landed Gentry Works Consulted. Pride and Prejudice : Historical Context of Pride and Prejudice | Chicago Public Library. The World Behind Alice in Wonderland: Oxford. Alice in Wonderland.net. Alice in Wonderland : 10 things you didn’t know about: The Guardian. 1. Alice’s character was based on a real-life little girl named Alice Liddell. She was in fact not a blonde as illustrated in the book but a brunette. The real life Alice has been portrayed in fiction almost as many times than the fictional one! Recently in John Logan’s stage play Peter and Alice in which she was played by Dame Judi Dench. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 33 individually designed sets227 members of the cast, creative and production team6,077 jam jars66,508 jam tarts92,400 playing cardsAnd countless man hours… We even asked a statistician to work out how many times you could come and see the show and get a different performance and he was unable to work it out, there were so many variations – hopefully Mr Dodgson would be proud!
Alice in Wonderland: Meet the Girl Who Inspired 'Alice in Wonderland' - The Atlantic. How the seven-year-old Alice Liddell shaped the childrens' classic MacMilan One hundred and fifty years ago yesterday, on July 4, 1862, a young mathematician by the name of Charles Dodgson, better-known as Lewis Carroll, boarded a boat with a small group, setting out from Oxford to the nearby town of Godstow, where the group was to have tea on the river bank. The party consisted of Carroll, his friend Reverend Robinson Duckworth, and the three little sisters of Carroll's good friend Harry Liddell—Edith (age 8), Alice (age 10), and Lorina (age 13).
Entrusted with entertaining the young ladies, Dodgson fancied a story about a whimsical world full of fantastical characters, and named his protagonist Alice. So taken was Alice Liddell with the story that she asked Dodgson to write it down for her, which he did when he soon sent her a manuscript under the title of Alice's Adventures Under Ground.
Alice Liddell, age 7, photographed by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in 1860. Dracula: The Land beyond the forest: source material for Dracula. Dracula: York & North Yorkshire - Whitby's Dracula connections. Bram Stoker was very taken with the atmosphere of Whitby Bram Stoker found some of his inspiration for 'Dracula' after staying in Whitby in 1890. He stayed in a house on the West Cliff and was trying to decide whether it would be suitable for a family holiday. By all accounts, he was quite smitten with the atmosphere of the town; the red roofs, Whitby Abbey, the church with its tombstones and even the bats flying around the many churches. Stoker found a general history book at Whitby library, which was originally near the Quayside. He tells us so at the top of a sheet of his notes taken from William Wilkinson's 'An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia' (1820).
There seems to be little doubt that Whitby is where he discovered the name. Stoker's Dracula is shipwrecked off the Yorkshire coast, he is actually on his way to London on the Russian schooner, Demeter. Forget what you think you know about Dracula and Whitby, read the novel and be surprised! Journal of Dracula Studies Archives – Kutztown University English Department.
‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction. Peter Pan: over 100 years of the boy who wouldn’t grow up | MCNY Blog: New York Stories. Wendy Darling: Boy, why are you crying? Boy: What’s your name? Wendy: Wendy Moira Angela Darling. What is your name? Boy: Peter Pan. Wendy: Is that all? Peter Pan: Yes. -Act I, Peter Pan; or, the boy who wouldn’t grow up by J. Otto Sarony Co. This is how we are introduced to Peter Pan, in the Darling children’s bedroom, crying with frustration over his separated shadow. Peter Pan made his Broadway debut on November 6, 1905, just under a year after appearing for the first time on the London stage. Theater program for “Peter Pan” at the Empire Theatre, November 1905. The Empire Theatre revived the play three times in the early part of the 20th century, all starring Ms. Unknown. Barrie’s boy got two revivals in the 1920s, the second of which was directed by and starred Eva Le Gallienne.
Lucas-Monroe. The final Broadway production of Peter Pan the play was mounted in 1950 at the Imperial Theatre. Peter Lawrence, a producer on Mr. Lucas-Monroe. Lucas-Monroe. Like this: Like Loading... Peter Pan: The surprisingly morbid origins of Peter Pan. Sign Up for Our free email newsletters It's been more than 100 years since Peter Pan made his debut, but he's never been more popular — or more difficult to pin down. The first trailer for Pan, a star-studded Peter Pan prequel, debuted in November. He played a major role as a villain in ABC's Once Upon a Time. Jake and the Neverland Pirates, a cartoon spin-off of the 1953 Disney film, has been showing up on TV since 2011. And tonight, you can tune in to NBC for the holiday event Peter Pan Live!
Starring Allison Williams as Pan and Christopher Walken as Captain Hook. The most notable thing about all these adaptations is how different they are from one another. Peter Pan originally debuted as an infant in The Little White Bird, a novel written by J.M. But despite these familiar trappings, Barrie's version of Peter Pan is quite darker than the character audiences know and love today. How did we go from that grim version to the cheery Disney version most remember? J.M. Barrie & Peter Pan: From Fantasy to Dark Realities. With the creation of Peter Pan, author and playwright J.M. Barrie came up with a character who would go on to delight audiences for more than a century.
Over the years, Peter Pan has appeared on stage, television and in the movies, in iterations that include Disney’s beloved 1953 animated film and now today, NBC’s live broadcast of Peter Pan on December 4th. But no matter how much of an icon Peter Pan is today, there are things you may not know about him and his creator. Fortunately, these seven fascinating facts will tell you more! Peter Pan’s Beginning Peter Pan first appeared as part of a story within a story in Barrie’s 1902 novel The Little White Bird. However, there were a few differences that make this version of Peter hard to recognize. All in all, we should be glad that Barrie chose to revisit Peter Pan.
The Genesis of Captain Hook Barrie’s notes show that he saw no need for a villain like Hook—he felt Peter was a “demon boy” who could create his own havoc. Real-life Lost Boys. Peter Pan: Top 10 things you didn’t know about Peter Pan: The Guardian. Peter Pan has a long history with the theatre – here are some of the most interesting facts I’ve unearthed when making our version at Polka. 1. Peter Pan was originally a play. It was later adapted into the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy.The first stage version opened at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London on 27 December 1904.
The Guardian gave it a great review: “Even those who least relish it must admit that no such play was ever seen before on any stage. It is absolutely original — the product of a unique imagination.” The play proved so popular, it was re-staged every year for the next 10 years. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Peter Glanville is Artistic Director of Polka Theatre and adaptor and director of a new version of Peter Pan, which runs at Polka until 14 Feb 2015.
Peter Pan: The real-life tragedy behind Peter Pan. 200 years of Pride and Prejudice: Austen power.