Sherlock Holmesiana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sherlock Holmes-iana
Etymology: From Sherlock Holmes + -iana.
Senses: examples: text: Side by side with the revival of “Sherlock Holmesiana” (if we may be pardoned such a fabrication) comes another story from the industrious pen of Mr. Guy Boothby, dealing with his wondrous figure Doctor Nikola.
ref: 1901 November 14, “Books of the Day”, in Liverpool Mercury and Lancashire, Cheshire, and General Advertiser, number 16,813, page 10, column 2:
text: I hear that Conan Doyle “fans” are frantic to add the Frank fake to their Sherlock Holmesiana.
ref: 1929 April 15, “News Notes From Abroad”, in Asbury Park Evening Press, forty-third year, number 89, Asbury Park, N.J., page 10, column 4:
text: Experts on Sherlock Holmesiana may also find food for thought in the bullet that Dr. John H. [or James] Watson carried in his sturdy body.
ref: 1939 October 27, “A Line o’ Type or Two”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume XCVIII, number 257, page 12, column 3:
text: SHERLOCK HOLMESIANA / An Evening in Baker Street
ref: 1951 September 2, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 103, number 346, St. Louis, Mo., page 4C:
text: Eve Titus has written a delightful book, “Basil of Baker Street” (Whittlessey House, McGraw-Hill), with the hope, she states, of attracting new readers to Sherlock Holmesiana.
ref: 1959 November 15, “Young Readers Should Enjoy Recent Books”, in The Chickasha Daily Express, 67th year, number 229, Chickasha, Okla., page seven, column 7:
text: ‘Let me show you the original manuscript of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” ’ Alex said, and showed me glass-enclosed display case in lobby containing Sherlock Holmesiana.
ref: 1965 February 20, Lillian Ross, “Pitching for Holmes”, in The New Yorker, section “The Talk of the Town”; published in Talk Stories, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 1966, →LCCN, page 256:
text: Mr. French does not make the mistake, which some Wodehouse men do, of treating this branch of literature as if it were Sherlock Holmesiana.
ref: 1966 August 27, Douglas Johnson, “The Woosters Decoded”, in The Birmingham Post, number 33,642, page II, column 6:
text: He has one of the outstanding American collections of Eric Gill, G.K. Chesterton, Stephen Crane, William Faulkner, Francis Thompson, Lafcadio Hearn, Aldous Huxley, Sherlock Holmesiana and T.S. Eliot.
ref: 1970 November 12, “John Bennett Shaw to lecture on Sherlock Holmes cult at Stables”, in The Taos News, Taos, N.M., page 8, column 3:
text: SHERLOCK HOLMESIANA / Anthondy Douglas Howlett, a founding member and former chairman of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, will speak on stage and screen portrayals of the famous sleuth at 7:30 p.m. in the MPC Theatre.
ref: 1976 March 4, “Calendar”, in The Carmel Pine Cone, page 19, column 1:
text: Ed’s hobbies include chamber music (viola) and Bohemian Club orchestra. Also Sherlock Holmesiana (Baker Street Irregulars).
ref: 1977 May, Whitworth Ferguson, Oscar Horovitz, “Classes”, in Technology Review, volume 79, number 6, page B6, column 3:
text: Doctor Ronchese was a Baker Street Irregular and gave his Sherlock Holmesiana material to the Library.
ref: 1977 October, Helen DeJong, “Doctor Ronchese”, in Rhode Island Medical Journal, volume 60, number 10, page 501, column 1:
text: Appendices the list 50 stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, biographies of Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, a selection of literary studies and reference works, and collections of Sherlock Holmesiana.
ref: 1986, Allen Eyles, Sherlock Holmes: A Centenary Celebration, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN:
text: […] The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centenary by his son Adrian Conan Doyle and a collection of Sherlock Holmesiana; […]
ref: 1979 September 22, The Sydney Morning Herald, number 44,235, page 52:
text: THE insatiable appetite for Sherlock Holmesiana is being delightfully fed by author M. T. Trow who is busy chronicling the adventures and the case[-]book of dear old bumbling Insp. Lestrade.
ref: 1986 May 10, PC, “Feckless flatfoot”, in Evening Telegraph, page six:
text: Exhibits at the festival abound, including children’s author Judy Delton’s manuscripts in Walter Library and a collection of Sherlock Holmesiana.
ref: 1988 September 4, Dave Wood, “Pending Festival of the Book promises volumes of activity”, in Star Tribune, volume VII, number 153, page 9F, columns 3–4:
text: [about the Leepers' r.a.b. FAQ list] […] POSTSCRIPT: This is not intended as a Leepers Bash; I delight in their Sherlock Holmesiana.
ref: 1992 February 27, Francis Muir, “rec.arts.books Frequently Asked Questions”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet):
text: […] a load of books, Sherlock Holmesiana inc. an album of personal photos of A. Conan Doyle, […]
ref: 1993 August 5, The Sacramento Bee, volume 274, page D9:
text: The author often receives letters announcing the birth of babies named Kinsey, and Holt recently published G is for Grafton, a guide to the fictional universe of Kinsey Millhone as obsessive as any volume of Sherlock Holmes[-]iana.
ref: 2000, Jonathan Bing, editor, Writing for Your Life, volume 4, Pushcart Press, →ISBN, page 85:
text: Kaveney places Buffy academia in the context, not of other series which have acquired an intellectual edge to their cult-status, but of far older phenomena like Sherlock Holmesiana.
ref: 2004, Keith Topping, Slayer: The Last Days of Sunnydale, Virgin Books, →ISBN, page 77:
text: […] a classical pianist and organist, he was a devotee of Gilbert and Sullivan, a scholar of Sherlock Holmesiana, and a fervent Trumper disciple.
ref: 2016, Gideon Haigh, Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot That Changed Cricket, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 251:
text: The first floor of Mystery, Inc. is American books; the second floor is British and foreign-language books, and Sherlock Holmesiana (an entire rear wall); […]
ref: 2016, Joyce Carol Oates, The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Thorndike, Me.: Center Point Large Print, →ISBN, page 307:
glosses: Memorabilia or writings related to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
Synonyms: Holmesiana
Sherlockiana