William Winwood Reade
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Historical figure.
William Winwood Reade (26 december 1838 - 24 april 1875) was a British historian, explorer, novelist and philosopher. His two best-known books, the universal history The Martyrdom of Man (1872) and the novel The Outcast (1875), were included in the Thinker's Library.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- Sherlock Holmes recommended to Dr. Watson the "most remarkable ever penned" book : Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man (SIGN 337).
- Sherlock Holmes said Reade observed that "while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty" (SIGN 2048).
