Beeton's Christmas Annual

Beeton's Christmas Annual was a British paperback magazine printed yearly between 1860 and 1898, founded by Samuel Orchart Beeton. In 1865, the magazine was purchased by Ward, Lock & Co.

In the fall of 1886, Arthur Conan Doyle submitted A Study in Scarlet to Ward, Lock & Co., after trying several more respectable publishers. They offered to buy the copyright for £25 provided they could publish it the following year, citing a glut of "cheap fiction".[1] They brought the novel out in the November 1887 issue of Beeton's Christmas Annual.[2] The narrative introduced the characters Sherlock Holmes and his friend Watson.[3]

References

  1. ^ Doyle, Arthur Conan. Memories and Adventures. Little, Brown and Company, 1924. 69f.
  2. ^ Stock, Randall (24 May 2010). "The Best of Sherlock Holmes – Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887: An Annotated Checklist and Census". Retrieved 1 July 2010.
  3. ^ Wolfreys, Julian (1992). "Introduction". In Conan Doyle, Arthur (ed.). The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London: Wordsworth. pp. v–vi. ISBN 1-85326-033-9.
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