Memories and Adventures

Douglas Kerr is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London and Honorary Professor of English and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Orwell and Empire (2022), Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice (2013), Eastern Figures: Orient and Empire in British Writing (2008), and Wilfred Owen’s Voices: Language and Community (1993). He is General Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle (22 vols), for which he has edited Conan Doyle’s autobiography, Memories and Adventures (2022).

• General Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsChronology of the Life of Arthur Conan DoyleIntroductionGenesis and CompositionPublication HistoryReceptionContext: The Autobiographical TraditionContext: Historical Context: BiographicalMemories and AdventuresPrefaceEarly RecollectionsUnder the JesuitsRecollections of a StudentWhaling in the Arctic OceanMy Voyage to West AfricaMy First Experiences in PracticeMy Start at SouthseaMy First Literary SuccessPulling Up the AnchorThe Great BreakSidelights on Sherlock Holmes Norwood and Switzerland Egypt in 1896On the Edge of a StormAn Interlude of PeaceThe Start for South AfricaDays with the ArmyFinal Experiences in South AfricaAn Appeal to the World’s OpinionMy Political Adventures The Years Between the Wars The Years Between the Wars (continued)Some Notable People Some Recollections of Sport To the Rocky Mountains in 1914The Eve of WarA Remembrance of the Dark YearsExperiences on the British FrontExperiences on the Italian FrontExperiences on the French FrontBreaking the Hindenburg LineThe Psychic QuestAppendix – Up to Date (1930)IllustrationsAn Essay on the TextApparatusAbbreviations used in the ApparatusEmendations and VariationsExplanatory Notes