Lot No. 249 | Techniques
Doyle was among the first generation of writers to earn great sums of money writing for mass-circulation magazines, as opposed to smaller, more literary journals. This story was published in Harpers's Magazine in 1892. His techniques are really quite similar to those of F. Scott Fitzgerald who published in American magazines like the Saturday Evening Post. Both men wrote simply and clearly about characters who were recognizable social types in a very realistic social environment. In fact, until the late nineteenth century, English writers generally refrained from setting...
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