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Episode 187: The Sherlock Holmes Review

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You may recognize the name Steven Doyle, BSI ("The <i>Western Morning News</i>"). He's half of the Wessex Press team, and he was the publisher behind The Sherlock Holmes Review — that Sherlockian quarterly that ran for a decade.<br />
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Steve joins us to talk about the impetus behind the publication and why Wessex Press is bringing it back to life. He also shares many details behind the legendary interview with Jeremy Brett and how the Granada team really got into the spirit of the magazine.<br />
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We have a wonderful prize (see below) for this episode's <b>Canonical Couplet</b>. Try your hand at our tricky quiz and you may be able to win a Sherlock Holmes action figure, still in its original packaging.<br />
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Episode 187: The Sherlock Holmes Review

“Holmes gave me a brief review” [THOR] You may recognize the name Steven Doyle, BSI ("The Western Morning News ")...

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Baker Street Elementary – Physician, Heal Thyself

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“he who would heal others” [STOC] </h4>
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We're guessing you're familiar with the phrase, "Physician, heal thyself."<br />
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Early references to this saying include the Luke 4:23 in the New Testament, in which Jesus is heard saying, "Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, 'Physician, heal thyself.'"<br />
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But it goes back even further than that. There's a similar proverb in Genesis Rabbah 23:4: "Physician, Heal thine own limp!"<br />
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Such proverbs also appear in literary Classical texts from at least the 6th century BC. The Greek dramatist Aeschylus refers to one in his <i>Prometheus Bound</i>, where the chorus comments to the suffering Prometheus, "Like an unskilled doctor, fallen ill, you lose heart and cannot discover by which remedies to cure your own disease."<br />
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If these strains sound familiar to Sherlock Holmes fans, you may recall that in the opening of "The Stock-Broker's Clerk," Watson wrote about his practice in the Paddington district:<br />
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"Old Mr. Farquhar, from whom I purchased it, had at one time an excellent general practice; but his age, and an affliction of the nature of St. Vitus’s dance from which he suffered, had very much thinned it. The public not unnaturally goes on the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole, and looks askance at the curative powers of the man whose own case is beyond the reach of his drugs."</blockquote>
In the case of old Mr. Farquhar, it's likely that his case wouldn't have been treatable with drugs, as St. Vitus's dance (or more commonly, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydenham%27s_chorea">Sydenham's chorea</a>) was a neurological disorder brought on by streptococcus. Adult onset was rare and responds to modern steroid-based drugs, with about 50 percent of cases resolving themselves without intervention.<br />
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But the point is clear: we have a bias toward harshly judging those who try to instruct or solve for things with which they themselves have no experience. Which takes us to Baker Street Elementary...<br />
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Baker Street Elementary – Physician, Heal Thyself

“he who would heal others” [STOC] We're guessing you're familiar with the phrase, "Physician, heal thyself." Ea...

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by Scott Monty

Review of Villains, Victims, and Violets

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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"</b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 248) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #111111;">some little trouble had been caused by a woman" [NOBL]</span></span></span></h4>
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Usually we see women in the Canon through the stacked perspectives of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and his literary agent, Arthur Conan Doyle. <br />
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The variety of authors in <a href="https://amzn.to/2VcP46C"><i>Villains,Victims, and Violets: Agency and Feminism in the Original Sherlock Holmes Canon</i></a> (A Studious Scarlets Society Anthology) bid the women in the Canon to step out from the pages, out of the mist and let us examine them in their full dimension in the context of their times. <br />
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Although I tend to disagree with the book's promotional description implying that scholarly writers have exhausted the topics of the Canon from Sherlock Holmes' perspective, this is a welcome addition to Sherlockian scholarship. <br />
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The entries in the anthology are grouped into five sections, based on facets of women's agency in the stories and society. The third section is an interlude, with a refreshing letter to Watson penned by "Lady Trelawney Hope" offering her views and the reasons behind her actions during "The Adventure of the Second Stain."<br />
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The actions of the women are discussed, often presenting insightful alternate views of their motivations. The examination of some women is eye-opening. It is interesting how many women who, while at the heart of investigations, never spoke for themselves in the Canon.  <br />
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Women's agency in Victorian England is certainly a factor in all the stories. The morality expected by Victorian and Edwardian readers must always have been in Conan Doyle's mind. Readers would expect praise and reward to come to those modest home-centered women who do as they should, serving husband and family.<br />
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The women who have taken it upon themselves to step out of their meek home-oriented life to become active partners in solving their own cases are more remarkable. While Holmes defended those who were truly victims, he showed great respect for those who did show agency. This is certainly reflected as their own words are more often quoted in the Canon.<br />
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An anthology is always a major undertaking, and Haile and Bower have been successful at it. There are a variety of contributors with different styles. The majority of the entries in this anthology are well constructed, well supported and are thought provoking. They support their views with data from the Canon as well as with information about the society of the time.<br />
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Most of the authors take us along with them to explore the range of motivations of the female figures that have so little voice, or none at all, in their own stories. Some share the remarkable women who find their voice and act on their own behalf to influence the outcomes of their situation. There are a few entries that include a tedious, lengthy retelling of a whole tale's plot. I would always prefer an author's original content to a string of direct quotes.<br />
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This anthology of women's agency in the Canon is as relevant and welcome now as it would have been during the Women's Rights movement in the 1960's. Hopefully, before long, the issues of a lack of agency will be viewed as historic rather than current.<br />
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The next time I reread the Canon, I will be definitely be looking more closely at the presentation of the women and their roles in their own stories. Just one of the things that I will be pondering for a good long time is just what name Holmes used when he signed the Adler-Norton marriage license as a witness.<br />
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Happy 221B Day

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As you no doubt have noticed today is 2/21 (for those who write dates in the style of DD/MM). That corresponds to 221B — get it?<br />
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As such, we thought it was an apt time to take a look back at a January 2010 entry in  <i>Smithsonian</i>: "<a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Sherlock-Holmes-London.html">Sherlock Holmes' London</a>."<br />
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The piece opens with a description of a 30 year-old Arthur Conan Doyle heading into London from his Southsea home to attend a dinner with the publisher of <i>Lippincott's</i> with none other than Oscar Wilde in attendance. The dinner was auspicious in that it resulted in two commissions: Wilde's <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/2v5NFUr">The Picture of Dorian Gray</a></i></b> and Conan Doyle's <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/2umxnX6">The Sign of Four</a></i></b>. But for the purpose of the article, it was even more significant that it took place at the Langham Hotel, which itself turned up in no fewer than three Sherlock Holmes stories (Quick! Which three? Comments below, please.).<br />
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The article covers a bit about Conan Doyle's life and the ongoing life that has sprung from his most famous creation, but then also covers another character in his stories — one that plays a constant supporting, if transparent, role: the city itself. Conan Doyle's mastery of the language in order to effectively set the scene is readily observed in this passage from The Sign of Four - that novel born from the very dinner at the Langham:<br />
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"It was a September evening, and not yet seven o'clock, but the day had been a dreary one, and a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city. Mud-coloured clouds drooped sadly over the muddy streets. Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light, which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement. The yellow glare from the shop-windows streamed out into the steamy, vaporous air, and threw a murky, shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare. There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light - sad faces and glad, haggard and merry. Like all human kind, they flitted from the gloom into the light, and so back into the gloom once more."</blockquote>
And while those ghostly gas-lamps no longer fail at 20 feet, the piece takes us through London past and present, through the Holmes stories and Conan Doyle's life. Naturally, there's a stop at 221B. And even helpful commentary from longtime reader and <a href="http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/">Sherlock Holmes Society of London</a> member Roger Johnson. We highly recommend you <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Sherlock-Holmes-London.html">check out the article</a> — especially if you're planning a pilgrimage to London and wish to visit some of the highlights.<br />
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You might also get yourself a copy of Thomas Bruce Wheeler's <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2TgFLzZ">The Mapped London of Sherlock Holmes</a></i>, a step-by-step guide of the London of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Or <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2HJJbFP">Sherlock Holmes's London</a></i>, a high-level overview of many areas of the city.<br />
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If you'd like to immerse yourself in sound, we have a couple of options for you. One is <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose153">this delightful interview with Denny Dobry</a>, who recreated the sitting room at his home in Pennsylvania.<br />
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And throughout Season 3 on <b>Trifles</b>, we did a series of shows bringing you <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/search/label/Inside%20221B">Inside 221B</a>. You can click that link for each entry, or see the full playlist here:<br />
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And if you don't want the celebrations for this special day to end at the stroke of midnight, what better way to celebrate this important date than to get yourself your very own <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/08/sherlockian-oval-stickers.html#.Xk_m7WhKjb0">221B oval sticker</a>? For your car, your laptop, your refrigerator — anywhere you like.<br />
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