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Revealed: the cruelty of Conan Doyle to his eldest daughter A new biography by a member of the Doyle family exposes the callous nature of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, reports Chris Logan

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040829
Author:Chris Logan

SIR ARTHUR Conan Doyle, the creator of the world's most celebrated fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, behaved cruelly towards his first-born daughter, a new biography has revealed.

It details how the Scottish-born Victorian author rejected his daughter, Mary, from his first marriage to appease the jealousy of his much younger second wife.

Conan Doyle once denied the teenager permission to return home for Christmas, even though she begged to be allowed to travel back from music school in Germany.

When he died in 1930, he left Mary pounds 2,000 (the equivalent of about pounds 80,000 today). ...

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