How Africa Made Arthur Conan Doyle a Sir

The Knight and the Campaign: How Africa Made Arthur Conan Doyle a Sir The overlooked story of a literary genius , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, who became a propaganda writer and wartime spokesman for the British Empire after the Second Boer WarMost readers meet Arthur Conan Doyle through Sherlock Holmes’s cool logic. It was for this campaign of advocacy, not primarily for Sherlock Holmes, that Conan Doyle received his knighthood in 1902. Title Forged in Africa The Sir in front of Arthur Conan Doyle's name is more than just an award for writing Sherlock Holmes. Imperial character types: figures like Dr. Leon Sterndale and other adventurers embody the colonial archetype Conan Doyle encountered and later admired. figures like Dr. Leon Sterndale and other adventurers embody the colonial archetype Conan Doyle encountered and later admired.