The document provides biographical information about a Victorian author. It details that he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in May 1822 and was fond of his mother. He attended a Jesuit boarding school in England for 7 years and later sought to become a doctor at the University of Edinburgh. As a young man he wrote short stories and met other authors. He practiced medicine and took a job on a ship that sailed to the Arctic Circle. He eventually began practicing medicine in Portsmouth, England and started writing novels in his spare time, creating the famous detective character Sherlock Holmes.

1. A Victorian Author

2. What Was His Childhood
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 Was born on May 22
 Edinburgh, Scotland
 He was fond of his mother
 Went to Jesuit boarding school in
England for 7 years

3. Life As A Young Man
 Sought out life as a doctor at Edinburgh
 Met James Barrie and Robert Louis
Stevenson
 Wrote short stories, Sasassa Valley,
chamber’s journal, American Tale, London
Society

4. Life As A Young Man part 2
 Offered job as surgeon on ship
 Arctic Circle
 Book Captain of the Pole Star
 Returned to studies in 1880, received
diploma year later

5. Life As An Author
Started practice in Portsmouth,
married Louisa Hawkins in 1885
 1886 started novel titled Tangled Skein
 2 years later Beeton’s Christmas Annual
under A Study in Scarlet
 Created a dichotomy in his life

6. List of His Novels
 Beyond the City Sign of the Four, The
 Desert Drama: Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko", A
Sir Nigel
 Doings Of Raffles Haw, The
 Duet, A Study In Scarlet, A
 Firm of Girdlestone, The Uncle Bernac: A Memory of
 Great Shadow, The the Empire
 Hound of the Baskervilles, The
Valley of Fear, The
 Lost World, The
 Micah Clarke White Company, The
 Mystery of Cloomber, The
 Poison Belt, The
 Refugees: A Tale Of Two Continents, The

7. Movie 
 Case of the Cunningham Heritage

8. Interesting Facts
 Advocated steel helmets for soldiers
 Introduced skiing to Switzerland
 Drunk dad

9. His Legacy Lives On!
 Hundreds versions of Sherlock Holmes
made into movies and plays