"The Doctors of Hoyland" by Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle

[bellatrys]

I first read this story about twenty years ago, as one of many in a large anthology of non-Holmes stories by ACD, long before I had acknowledged my own anti-patriarchal leanings, and it struck me exceedingly - both for the overt challenge to this conventional 'wisdom' regarding gender roles by such a prominent Victorian author, and the fact that I

Comments

[fledgist]

Thank you. This is a wonderful little story.

[nenya_kanadka]

I like it!

*smiling like cat who's gotten the canary*

[deiseach]

Thanks for putting this one up for all those who can't get their hands on the obscure stories. Share the ACD love

[evilstorm]

Awwwwwww.