![]() ![]() Doyle later described her influence on his life: "In my early childhood, as far as I can remember anything at all, the vivid stories she would tell me stand This influenced Doyle's later development into historian and bibliophile.ĭoyle's mother, Mary Foley Doyle, was a captivating storyteller. Once led to a temporary separation from his wife, and young Arthur went to stay with sisters of John Hill Burton, historiographer-royal for Scotland. Though the family led a prosperous lifestyle, there wasn't much money and his father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was a chronic alcoholic. He also wrote plays, romances, poetry, and non-fiction.ĭoyle was born in 1859 to an Irish Catholic family in Edinburgh, Scotland. However, he wrote many books besides mysteries, including Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle is best known today for creating the great English detective, Sherlock Holmes. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892). ![]()
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