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    Beeton's Christmas Annual. The Best of Sherlock Holmes – Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887: An Annotated Checklist and Census Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887...
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    complete copies of the magazine in which the story first appeared, Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, are known to exist now, which have considerable value...
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    Doyle's first novel, A Study in Scarlet, which was published in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887. The story in The Strand was one in a series of six, published...
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    Margate in 1903. She died in Paris in 1904. Defeated: A Tale [Beeton's Christmas Annual] (London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1885) Through Troubled Waters: A Novel...
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    the latter date. A Study in Scarlet (published November 1887 in Beeton's Christmas Annual) The Sign of the Four (published February 1890 in Lippincott's...
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    Needlework, Beeton's Dictionary of Geography, Beeton's Book of Birds, Beeton's Book of Poultry and Domestic Animals, Beeton's Book of Home Pets, Beeton's Book...
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    1887 issue of Beeton's Christmas Annual. Friston's pictures are acknowledged to be the first portraits of the Holmes character. The annual was issued in...
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    Beeton School (ビートン校) is a fictional coeducational boarding school in which the NHK puppetry Sherlock Holmes is set. It is named after Beeton's Christmas...
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  • restrictions were placed on maximum working hours, wages increased and routine annual leave became increasingly common. The rise of the middle class during the...
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    all rights to the story. The piece appeared a year later in the Beeton's Christmas Annual and received good reviews in The Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald...
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    Australia. CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 978-0-643-09027-9. Beeton, Bob; Burbidge, Andrew. "Final report: Christmas Island Expert Working Group". National Parks. Department...
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    A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in...
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  • first appearance, in the novel A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton's Christmas Annual. November 3 – The Coimbra Academic Association, the students'...
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    Doyle's first detective novel, A Study in Scarlet, is published in Beeton's Christmas Annual by Ward Lock & Co. in London, introducing the consulting detective...
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  • Doyle's first detective novel, A Study in Scarlet, is published in Beeton's Christmas Annual by Ward Lock & Co. in London. This introduces the London consulting...
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    company with the title of Ward Lock and Bowden Ltd." In the 1887 Beeton's Christmas Annual (published in November) Arthur Conan Doyle's first detective novel...
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  • publishers of A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 edition of Beeton's Christmas Annual, had the comprehensive rights to the book. The company sold the...
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  • at the request of teachers and pupils. The name "Beeton School" is taken from Beeton's Christmas Annual, the magazine in which the character Sherlock Holmes...
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  • Coin — A Romance of the Far West and of the Riding Ring, 33rd Beeton's Christmas Annual, London: Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co. The Standard, 6 December 1892...
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  • Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet (in Beeton's Christmas Annual, November). H. Rider Haggard's novels She and Allan Quatermain...
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    not part of the annual volumes. In many years the issue nearest Christmas was enlarged (as was the price) and billed as a Christmas special. From 1879...
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    Christmas pudding is sweet, dried-fruit pudding traditionally served as part of Christmas dinner in Britain and other countries to which the tradition...
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  • The Macsorley Talisman, The Graphic Christmas 1876 Two drawing room plays, Defeated: A Tale [Beeton's Christmas Annual] by Hannah Lynch (London: London :...
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    Life. In a Series of Hard Lines", to the Ninth Season (1868) of Beeton's Christmas Annual. Ross was the author of six novels in genres ranging from Gothic...
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  • January, coinciding with the Christmas and holiday season. Cape Town: Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town Minstrel Carnival), held annually on 2 January (Second New...
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    is commonly believed to originate from Eton College and is served at the annual cricket match against the pupils of Harrow School. Eton mess is occasionally...
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  • Doyle's first detective novel, A Study in Scarlet, is published (in Beeton's Christmas Annual), introducing London consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and...
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    eating black puddings was historically associated with Martinmas, when the annual slaughter of livestock took place. By the 19th century black pudding manufacture...
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  • about 60 to 70 per cent of the stuff in there is from that period". Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is an important guide to the food served in...
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    County Museum. ISBN 0-86059-532-3. Beeton, Isabella (1861). Beeton's Book of Household Management. London: S. O. Beeton Publishing. De Rijke, Victoria (2008)...
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