The Life and Times of Sherlock Holmes - by Liese Sherwood-Fabre (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Fans of Sherlock Holmes, Victorian England, and history in general will all find interesting tidbits to carry away.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle references many everyday Victorian activities and aspects that are lost on the twenty-first century reader. These short essays provide modern readers a better understanding of Victorian England and greater insight into the world of Sherlock Holmes. His cases take on richer meaning when the reader grasps the subtleties of such details as the blue ribbon mentioned in "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box," the doss houses Shinwell Johnson knew about, or how one contracted brain fever.

Originally published in Sherlockian newsletters across the world, these short essays carry the reader back to London, 1895 and the world of the most famous consulting detective. Topics covered include:

• Horse racing
• The Victorian Wedding
• Boxing
• The Temperance Movement
• Fencing
• London Smog
• Brain Fever
• Circuses
• The Port of Dundee
• Doss Houses
• Vampires
• Bradshaw's Companion
• Bicycles and the New Woman
• Clergymen
• Public Houses
• Microscopes and Magnifying Glasses
• Governesses
• Ciphers and Codes
• Eton
• Cambridge and Oxford
• The Art of Disguise
• Typewriters
• Brief History of Tea

Return, once again, to Victorian England and the residents of 221B Baker Street.

"We have...always found [Dr. Sherwood-Fabre's] essays to be both entertaining and informative as well as very well researched."

- Joel Senter, editor, The Sherlockian E-Times

Review Quotes

"We have had the privilege of publishing Liese's essays in our Sherlockian E-Times each month for the past few years...[and] have, personally, always found her essays to be both entertaining and informative as well as very well-researched. "

Joel Senter, Editor, The Sherlockian E-Times

"Liese Sherwood-Fabre, through her extensive research into the life of the 1890's London, has provided Sherlockians across the country amazing insights of how residents of the Victoria period lived, ....[and] brings to life a society which we have only dreamed of being a resident of."

Steve Mason, The Crew of the Barque Lone Star

"Liese Sherwood-Fabre's essays on life in Sherlock Holmes' Victorian world...provide insight into topics that are referred to in the Holmes stories. "

Sally Sugarman, Editor, Groans, Cries and Bleatings