Mary Morstan
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia

Fictional character.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
Mary Morstan was the client of Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of Four (SIGN, 195).
- At the end of The Sign of Four case, Mary has accepted Dr. Watson as a husband in prospective (SIGN, 2817).
- When seated at breakfast at his house, Watson and his wife (Mary Morstan), received a telegram from Sherlock Holmes (BOSC, 1).
- Watson rushed upstairs (of his house) to explain the matter to his wife (Mary Morstan) and joined Sherlock Holmes upon the doorstep (STOC, 58).
- She probably died (unknown cause) between 1891 and 1894, as Watson was in bereavement in 1894 (EMPT, 188).
Illustrations
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Mary Morstan at Baker Street. Illustration by Thomas J. Nicholl (The Wilson Advance, 7 march 1895, p. 4)
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Mary Morstan at Baker Street. Illustration by Richard Gutschmidt in Das Zeichen der Vier (Robert Lutz, 1902, p. 24)
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Watson and Mary Morstan. Illustration by Richard Gutschmidt in Das Zeichen der Vier (Robert Lutz, 1902, p. 186)
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Mary Morstan at Baker Street. Illustration by H. B. Eddy (The Examiner (San Francisco), 21 april 1914, Editorial section, p. 2)
Fake Illustrations
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Illustration of Violet Hunter (by Sidney Paget in The Copper Beeches, 1892) used as "Miss Morstan" in Stories of Sherlock Holmes (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1904).
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Illustration of Violet Smith (by Frederic Dorr Steele in The Solitary Cyclist, 1903) used as "Mrs. Watson" in Conan Doyle's Best Books (P. F. Collier & Son, 1904).
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Illustration of a young lady (by Orson Lowell in Frank R. Stockton's novel "A Bicycle of Cathay", 1900) used as "Miss Morstan" in Stories of Sherlock Holmes (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1904).
Performers
Non-exhaustive list.
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Isla Bevan as Mary Morstan in movie The Sign of Four (1932)
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Ann Bell as Mary Morstan in episode The Sign of Four (1968)
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Gila von Weitershausen as Mary Morstan in episode Le Signe des quatre - Das Zeichen der Vier (1974)
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Samantha Eggar as Mary Morstan-Watson in movie The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
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Cherie Lunghi as Mary Morstan in TV movie The Sign of Four (1983)
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Ekaterina Zinchenko as Mary Morstan in TV movie Сокровища Агры (1983)
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Jenny Seagrove as Miss Mary Morstan in TV episode The Sign of Four (1987)
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Sophie Lorain as Mary Morstan in TV movie The Sign of Four (2001)
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Kelly Reilly as Mary Morstan in movie Sherlock Holmes (2009)
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Amanda Abbington as Mary Morstan in episode The Empty Hearse (2014)
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Kornelia Podgórska (right) as a young Mary Morstan in short movie Sherlock (2015)
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Kari Mentzer as Mary Morstan in play Sherlock Holmes and the Curse of the Sign of Four (2015)
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Heide Binder as Mary Morstan in Sherlock Holmes: Der Hund Der Baskervilles (2017)
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Stephanie Rutherford as Mary Morstan in Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four (2018)
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Karen Grogan as the ghost of Mary Morstan in play Life After Sherlock (2019)
Also :
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Bill Heck as Ty Morstan, the ex-husband of Joan Watson in Elementary (2012).