The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle5/15/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() During this period, Doyle started composing stories but didn’t publish any until a few years later. Joseph Bell, whose astute methods of observation and diagnosis were to have a great effect on Doyle’s writing. He later went to medical school in Edinburgh, training as a doctor under the tutelage of Dr. Doyle’s wealthy uncles paid for their nephew to board at the Hodder Place school in Lancashire from 1868 to 1870, though Doyle found its methods harsh and outdated. Despite his later reputation as a frequenter of the London gentlemen’s clubs, Doyle’s upbringing was tough-his father, Charles Doyle, suffered from alcoholism and psychiatric illness. Arthur Conan Doyle was born to Irish Catholic parents in Scotland during the middle of the Queen Victoria’s reign over the United Kingdom. ![]()
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