Sir A. Conan Doyle's Sussex Home
Sir A. Conan Doyle's Sussex Home is an article published in The Eastbourne Gazette on 2 december 1908.
Sir A. Conan Doyle's Sussex Home
Sir Arthur and Lady Conan Doyle, in their new Crowborough home, are described by Mrs. Tooley in the "Woman at Home." [1] Lady Conan Doyle was the discoverer of the charming retreat. Both Sir Arthur and Lady Conan Doyle are exceedingly fond of gardening, and in the course of a year have made the garden of their country home a paradise of flowers. But the novelist, Mrs. Cooley says, is "by no means a modern Cincinnatus tending his cabbages and lost to the world: he and Lady Conan Doyle average two days in London each week, and are a good deal in society." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describes himself as unsystematic in his work: "He has no regular time for writing, but seizes the mood when it comes, and works tremendously hard while it lasts. His typical day is to write between breakfast and lunch, spend the afternoon weeding in the garden, or playing golf or cricket. After tea he generally writes again until dinner, and in the evening reads, plays billiards, and listens to his wife singing. He never dictates or uses a typewriter, and his MS. is beautiftlly written, and shows very little correction." A Christmas story he recently finished was partly written in pencil in the train.
- ↑ "Sir Arthur and Lady Conan Doyle at Home" in "The Woman at Home" magazine (december 1908).
