Archery
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Arthur Conan Doyle did himself some archery in the 1920s. But very earlier he wrote a lot about English archers in The White Company (1891) and Sir Nigel (1905) where Samkin Aylward, a gallant archer, is one of the main characters.
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Arthur Conan Doyle doing archery (1920s).
Conan Doyle about Archery
- « I set myself to reconstruct the archer, who has always seemed to me to be the most striking figure in English history. [..] The archers must have been extraordinary fellows. » (A Day with Dr. Conan Doyle, 1892)
- « My system before writing such a book as "Sir Nigel" or "The Refugees" was to read everything I could get about the age and to copy out into notebooks all that seemed distinctive. I would then cross-index this material by dividing it under the heads of the various types of character. Thus under Archer I would put all archery lore, and also what oaths an archer might use, where he might have been, what wars, etc., so as to make atmosphere in his talk. » (How I Write My Books, 1924)
Fictions with some Archery
- The Song of the Bow (poem, 1891)
- The Franklin's Maid (poem, 1891)
- The White Company (1891)
- Sir Nigel (1905)
- The Blind Archer (poem, 1897)
