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The first scholarly edition of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes including a detailed introduction, an essay on the text, a textual apparatus and explanatory notes. Arthur Conan Doyle's The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes was first published by George Newnes, Ltd in December 1893. The first edition featured eleven short stories which had all appeared in the Strand Magazine over the preceding twelve months. The sequence of stories culminated in the apparent death of Sherlock Holmes in 'The Final Problem'. The Memoirs contained some of the most well-regarded and dramatic of the early Holmes stories, but also served as a compelling document of Conan Doyle's struggle to balance the commercial demands of modern authorship with his own literary aspirations. This scholarly edition offers students and researchers a detailed resource with which to understand the volume's composition, publishing history and reception. Jonathan Cranfield is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. He is the author of Twentieth-Century Victorian: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Strand Magazine, 1891-1930 (EUP, 2016), co-editor of Fan Phenomena: Sherlock Holmes (2013) and has published various peer-reviewed articles on late-Victorian periodical culture, popular fiction and early cinema.

The first scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's controversial collection of medical stories from the height of his initial fame in 1894 Arthur Conan Doyle trained in medicine at Edinburgh University in the 1870s and then spent eight years as a General Practitioner in Southsea, before deciding to become a professional author in 1890. The stories collected in Round the Red Lamp are gathered from his medical training and incidents in his life as a provincial GP. Some of the stories are daring - dealing explicitly with child birth, sexually transmitted diseases and malpractice. Some are sentimental or comic vignettes. Some are Gothic horrors. On publication the shades of dark and light bewildered some of his readers and the medical realism outraged others. Round the Red Lamp is a vital collection in understanding Conan Doyle's shift of profession from medic to author. [Bio]Roger Luckhurst is Geoffrey Tillotson Professor of Nineteenth Century Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of many books on science fiction and the Gothic, and specialises in the late nineteenth century.