[ SECRET POST #2957 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2957 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

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By the time ACD was a writer, England had been through the Great War

This confuses me slightly. The majority of ACD's Sherlock Holmes stories were published in the late 19th century and early 20th century prior to World War I (not all of them, but most). Is there another war referred to as The Great War? I mean, there probably is, but I don't recall it.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, the majority of Sherlock Holmes stories pre-date WWI. A Study in Scarlet was published in 1887 and everything up through the The Return of Sherlock Holmes was published before 1905. All but one of the stories in His Last Bow were from before the war, while "His Last Bow" was from 1917. The only other part of the Holmes canon contemporaneous with WWI was The Valley of Fear, which was published in late 1914 through mid-1915. Finally, the stories in The Case Book are from the 1920s.

I vaguely remembered something about Doyle being linked to the Boer War, but Wikipedia tells me he just wrote about it and wasn't in it or anything.

The UK fought other wars, but I really don't think there was anything in the late 1800s and early 1900s that could compare to WWI in terms of cultural impact.

[tweedisgood]

Doyle served in a field hospital in South Africa during the war:

http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/south-african-war-field-doctor-arthur-conan-doyle-born


and his knighthood was for his propaganda in supporting it.

[(Anonymous)]

You're right, I got my dates mixed up. The whole idea of deep platonic bonds still stands, though.