scion society:
Scion societies are organizations of Holmes enthusiasts (Sherlockians) sanctioned by the Baker Street Irregulars, a notoriously exclusive organization (you can’t join, you …
playing the game, the Grand Game:
Maintaining the belief that Sherlock Holmes was a real person, that his biographer was John Watson and that Arthur Conan Doyle was …
penny dreadfuls:
Also called penny horribles and penny awfuls, these were cheap and usually lurid stories that were popular in the 19th century, the …
Lower Assembly Rooms:
The older of the assembly rooms (see assemblies) in Bath. It no longer exists, having burned down in the 1820s.
pastiche:
A novel written in the style of an author and usually borrowing an author’s characters, like Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. It …
letters patent:
These were open letters issued by a monarch conferring some office, right, monopoly, title, or status to a person or to some …
hackney, hansom, growler:
A two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse and used as a taxi cab and refers to either originally a brougham and …