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When Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, “20,000 people cancelled their subscriptions to the Strand”. Public pressure – & a huge fee – brought Holmes back from the dead; did this fictional immortality influence Doyle’s spiritualism?

8/11

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #spiritualism

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n13/leah-price/one-chapter-more

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