Gresham College Lectures

"A Stout Heart in the Great Cesspool": Arthur Conan Doyle and London

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From the impressions of his first youthful visit, to his mature years when all doors opened for him, London was an important backdrop to much of Conan Doyle's life and work. From the Sherlock Holmes stories to The Lost World (in this, the 100th anniversary year of...

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