A study of the author's use of settings in a range of short stories showing knowledge of literacy context.
Introduction
These short stories were written over about hundred years ago these stories were a very different approach in the Victorian era. Many people had newfound literacy skills and the demand for popular reading skills. Britain and a lot of other people liked reading magazines and newspapers this entertained them. The genre that was most popular was mystery, horror, detective and supernatural.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became famous in this era for his short stories about a fictional detective called Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle has been a doctor for several years. His trusted partner Dr Watson who helped him solve the many cases, the detective was called in to investigate always accompanied him. The two partners can be seen at work in 'The Yellow Face', which was published in the 1894.
'The Yellow Face' is set in typically Victorian suburbia was a story about a mystery that Holmes is called into investigate. A man called Grant Munro comes to Holmes London office in an agitated state because he believes his wife was hiding a terrible secret. They are a typical Victorian couple that have been married for a couple of years he goes to working the city and she stays at home to manage the household. This was very common in the Victorian marriages that their wife would hand over of any financial independence to her husband. Although she has signed over her money and Munro allows her access to it was unusual in the Victorian times. When she asks for £100 and won't say what for so he becomes suspicious he thought that is might be for a new dress or something. So he asked her 'What an earth for?' so she said to him 'You said that you were only my banker, and bankers never ask questions, you know'.
Introduction
These short stories were written over about hundred years ago these stories were a very different approach in the Victorian era. Many people had newfound literacy skills and the demand for popular reading skills. Britain and a lot of other people liked reading magazines and newspapers this entertained them. The genre that was most popular was mystery, horror, detective and supernatural.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became famous in this era for his short stories about a fictional detective called Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle has been a doctor for several years. His trusted partner Dr Watson who helped him solve the many cases, the detective was called in to investigate always accompanied him. The two partners can be seen at work in 'The Yellow Face', which was published in the 1894.
'The Yellow Face' is set in typically Victorian suburbia was a story about a mystery that Holmes is called into investigate. A man called Grant Munro comes to Holmes London office in an agitated state because he believes his wife was hiding a terrible secret. They are a typical Victorian couple that have been married for a couple of years he goes to working the city and she stays at home to manage the household. This was very common in the Victorian marriages that their wife would hand over of any financial independence to her husband. Although she has signed over her money and Munro allows her access to it was unusual in the Victorian times. When she asks for £100 and won't say what for so he becomes suspicious he thought that is might be for a new dress or something. So he asked her 'What an earth for?' so she said to him 'You said that you were only my banker, and bankers never ask questions, you know'.
