So he rewrote it from memory, the result of which is thought to be the British Library's manuscript.Īlthough the novel suffers from a lack of plot, it does conjure a world of boarding houses and pipe-smoking, which fans of Sherlock Holmes will recognise. He then suffered a major blow when the manuscript of The Narrative got lost in the post, never to be found again. For that reason, he attempted a novel, which would have his name on the cover. But he was frustrated by the Victorian practice of omitting the author's name, especially when one of his works in The Cornhill was hailed as being by Robert Louis Stevenson. He had started writing short stories and submitting them to magazines to supplement his income. His father had been taken ill due to alcoholism, and the 23-year-old had to support his mother and fund the education of his 10-year-old brother. Conan Doyle was living and working as a doctor in Portsmouth when he embarked on the novel in 1883.
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