Dr. Conan Doyle Volunteers for the Front
Dr. Conan Doyle Volunteers for the Front is an article published in The Penny Illustrated Paper on 13 january 1900.
Dr. Conan Doyle Volunteers for the Front
DR. CONAN DOYLE.
This popular novelist has volunteered his services in connection with the "Langman" Field Hospital for the front. Mr. Langman has gratefully accepted his offer, and it is expected that Dr. Conan Doyle will leave England in about three weeks with the whole of the personnel of the hospital. Dr. Doyle is the grandson of John Doyle, the famous political caricaturist "H. B.," and was born at Edinburgh in 1859. His education began at Stonyhurst in Lancashire, and was continued in Germany. At both schools the irrepressible literary leanings of the future novelist broke forth in the shape of school magazines which he edited. In 1876 he commenced to study medicine at the Edinburgh University, and remained there for five years. His first essay in literature was "The Mystery of the Sassassa Valley," written at the age of nineteen, and pub- lished in Chambers's Journal. From 1882 to 1890 he practised his profession at Southsea, writing all the while various short stories. His success as a writer led to his final abandonment of medicine for literature. At the present time he is one of our best-known novelists.
