Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Works on Spiritualism

Dec. 15th, 2018 04:49 pm
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I want to learn more about Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle, and part of that is I want to understand his views of spiritualism, in addition to how it was addressed in the Victorian era.

* All that I can find right now are listed. Still looking for the others. 

 

"Sir Arthur's Works on Spiritualism

  Twenty of Sir Arthur's over sixty books are about Spiritualism. They include: 

"http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/doyle/spiritualism.html

also:

D. D. Home: His life and message by Home, D. D. (1833) Book edited and introduced by Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle.

 

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Side note: There are many mythologies and beliefs through the years and just because His beliefs were not the same as others who believed in spiritual beings that cannot be proved and may not even exist (*cough*Christians*cough*) then he should not be mocked either.  Spiritualism was/is yet another belief in the sea of beliefs and really, it is more then a little hypocritical for anyone to be getting their knickers in a twist and pointing at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when they might belief in a  spiritualistic thing/religious system too. 

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Resources: Victorian Era

Dec. 2nd, 2018 02:53 pm
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Writing Research - Victorian Era

In historical fiction it is important to be accurate and the only way to do so is to research the era. What is highly recommended by many writers is to write your story first. While writing your story, mark the parts that you’re not sure are correct and then do the research after you are done. This is to prevent you from doing unnecessary research that may not be relevant to your work. You want to spend your time wisely! Or you can just research as you go, it’s really whatever works for you since there isn’t a “wrong” way to research.

To begin, the Victorian era of the British history (and that of the British Empire) formally begins in 1837, which was the year Victoria became Queen and ends in 1901 – the year of her death. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain. Some scholars date the beginning of the period in terms of sensibilities and political concerns to the passage of the Reform Act 1832. [1]

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Wouldn’t Sir Arthur have written Johnlock explicitly if it was Canon?

Jan. 4th, 2016 02:59 pm
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“So, I wrote this a bit cheekily last night, but now I want to expand on it with some actual facts. I see a lot of people saying, “Oh, back in the 19th century, Sherlock and John couldn’t openly be together.” And that’s true, but what’s at the heart of that sentiment is this one, “Arthur Conan Doyle couldn’t have written them openly together, because the general public would assume he was encouraging homosexuality, perhaps was even homosexual himself, and that would have been dangerous.” Here’s why.
 
In 1885, the British Parliament enacted section 11 of the he Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, known as the Labouchere Amendment which prohibited gross indecency between males. It thus became possible to prosecute homosexuals for engaging in sexual acts where buggery or attempted buggery could not be proven. Note that they didn’t have to actually catch you in the act, they just had to suspect that you did it. During this time period, many notable men were prosecuted with disastrous results; Lord Arthur Chilton committed suicide after being implicated in Boulton and Park trial involving two transvestites and Oscar Wilde was sentences to prison and hard labour after being found guilty.
 
Was there still a homosexual culture in England at the time? Yes, it was around this time that the movement began to flourish, with clandestine gatherings preceding the opening of the first gay pub, The Cave of the Golden Calf in 1912. There was even the beginnings of gay erotica and publishing, but it was still very much subversive and not opening distributed among the public.
 
The opposite of who Arthur Conan Doyle was; Sherlock Holmes increased subscriptions to The Strand magazine by 30,000. While Oscar Wilde, if not embraced, accepted, the consequences of his actions, Arthur Conan Doyle was not in a position to do that. He received a knighthood in 1902, he was involved in political campaigns and other civic work throughout his lifetime, and he had 5 children to support. He was not in a position to risk what an accusation of buggery would bring.
 
So, when you look at the situation, Arthur Conan Doyle was unable to go any farther than he had with Holmes and Watson in his original stories. Even if he wanted to. Even if he tried to fill it with as much subtext as possible, he would always have to be mindful of what would happen if he went to far.
 
This is why this argument bothers me so much. Were Sherlock Holmes in John Watson explicitly in a romantic relationship in the original stories? No, and no one is arguing that they were. Are we intended to imply, with the clues that were safe to include given the environment at the time, that it’s a possibility? That’s up to you to decide. But demanding that the only way a relationship could be legitimate is if it had been clearly stated by Arthur Conan Doyle is frustrating because it’s imposing today’s standards on a time period where they do not fit”
 
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