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| | Discovering Sherlock Holmes - A Community Reading Project From Stanford University |
 | | When "A Scandal in Bohemia" was published in The Strand Magazine in 1891, readers were greeted with Sidney Paget's moody drawings, which represent Holmes as tall, handsome, and elegant, despite Conan Doyle's original description, according to which Holmes was extremely thin, with a large nose and small eyes set close together. |
 | | Apparently Paget's younger brother Walter, whom the artist used as a model, was quite a handsome fellow. |
 | | Conan Doyle soon grew attached to Sidney Paget's elegant vision of Holmes, and when he met the American actor William Gillette, who wanted to play Holmes on the stage, he felt that his creation had come to life. |
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