Doyle, Arthur Conan

has biography | a une biographie: British writer and physician in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Doyle is most well known as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, but he was also involved in, and wrote about, the British Empire and imperial politics. Doyle served as a volunteer physician in Bloemfontein between March and June 1900 during the Second Boer War (1899-1902), and wrote about the war in The Great Boer War (1900) and The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct (1902). In 1909, he wrote The Crime of the Congo in support of E.D. Morel and Roger Casement's campaign for the reform of the Congo Free State.

Doyle's fictional works also touch on imperial themes. The famous character of Dr. Watson, for instance, was written as a veteran of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880), while the science fiction novel The Lost World (1912) depicts an imaginary expedition to South America.
was born | est né: 22 May 1859
died in | est mort par: 7 July 1930
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia - Arthur Conan Doyle; Wikipedia - Arthur Conan Doyle bibliography

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