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The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1890)

Short story collections

Sketches by Boz (1836)

Boots at the Holly-tree Inn: And Other Stories (1858)

Reprinted Pieces (1861)

The Haunted House (1862) (with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Proctor, George Sala and Hesba Setton)

The Mudfog Papers (1880) aka Mudfog and Other Sketches

To Be Read At Dusk (1898)

Selected nonfiction, poetry, and plays

The Village Coquettes (Plays, 1836)

The Fine Old English Gentleman (poetry, 1841)

American Notes: For General Circulation (1842)

Pictures from Italy (1846)

The Life of Our Lord: As written for his children (1849)

A Child's History of England (1853)

The Frozen Deep (play, 1857)

Speeches, Letters and Sayings (1870)

Dickens as a Character in Fiction

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942). Morton Lowry portrays Dickens.

Dickens of London (1976) is a miniseries about Dickens. He is played as an adult by Roy Dotrice.

Portrayed by Simon Callow in the 2005 Doctor Who episode The Unquiet Dead.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859-7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction.

Life

Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland, to an English father, Charles Altamont Doyle, and an Irish mother, Mary Foley, who had married in 1855. Although he is now referred to as "Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound surname is uncertain. Conan Doyle's father was an artist, as were his paternal uncles (one of whom was Richard Doyle), and his paternal grandfather John Doyle.

Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school St Marys Hall, Stonyhurst, at the age of nine. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, but by the time he left the school in 1875, he had rejected Christianity to become an agnostic.

From 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, including a period working in the town of Aston (now a district of Birmingham). While studying, he also began writing short stories; his first published story appeared in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal before he was 20. Following his term at university, he served as a ship's doctor on a voyage to the West African coast, and then in 1882 he set up a practice in Plymouth. He completed his doctorate on the subject of tabes dorsalis in 1885.

In 1882 he took up medical practice in Portsmouth. The practice was initially not very successful; while waiting for patients, he again began writing stories. His first significant work was A Study in Scarlet, which appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887 and featured the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes, who was partially modelled after his former university professor, Joseph Bell. Future short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes were published in the English magazine The Strand. Interestingly, Rudyard Kipling congratulated Conan Doyle on his success, asking "Could this be my old friend, Dr. Joe?" Sherlock Holmes, however, was even more closely modelled after the famous Edgar Allan Poe character, C. Auguste Dupin.

While living in Southsea he played football for an amateur side (that disbanded in 1894), Portsmouth Athletic Football Club, and not Portsmouth F.C., as is the common myth.

In 1885 he married Louisa (or Louise) Hawkins, known as "Touie", who suffered from tuberculosis and died on July 4, 1906. He married Jean Leckie in 1907, whom he had first met and fallen in love with in 1897 but had maintained a platonic relationship with her out of loyalty to his first wife. Conan Doyle had five children, two with his first wife (Mary Louise (born 1889) and Alleyne Kingsley (1892-1918), and three with his second