ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a writer and doctor, catapulted to fame by his stories featuring the master of logic and deduction, Sherlock Holmes. The enormous success of these detective tales allowed Conan Doyle to give up his medical practice in 1891 and dedicate himself to writing.

Detailed explanation-4: -Conan Doyle repeatedly said that Holmes was inspired by the real-life figure of Joseph Bell, a surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, whom Conan Doyle met in 1877 and had worked for as a clerk. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing broad conclusions from minute observations.

Detailed explanation-5: -Although Sherlock Holmes is not the original fictional detective (he was influenced by Poe’s Dupin and Gaboriau’s Lecoq), his name has become a byword for the part. Conan Doyle stated that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr.