Liverpool Sunday Society (report 30 october 1893)
Liverpool Sunday Society is an article published in the Liverpool Mercury on 30 october 1893.
Report of a lecture "Facts about Fiction" given by Arthur Conan Doyle on 29 october 1893 at the Picton Lecture Hall (Liverpool, UK).
Report
Liverpool Sunday Society. — The second meeting of the present session of the Liverpool Sunday Society was held yesterday afternoon, in the Picton Hall. Alderman Rathbone presided, and the building was crowded. The proceedings having been briefly opened by the chairman, Dr. A. Conan Doyle delivered a lecture on "Facts about Fiction." Having referred to the past history of fiction, he said that in the present day they had not writers of fiction who held the same place in the public mind as that held by Thackeray or Dickens ; but if such great writers were wanting, the average remained as high as ever, and they wrote with a closer insight into the true principles of fiction. He predicted, however, that their literature is the future, owing to influence at work, might be not less, but more brilliant than in the past. Fiction was one of the most vital things in the world, for what people read they were apt to think ; and what they thought they were apt to do. — The lecture was listened to with great interest.
