The Gloria Scott: A Matter of Size

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Title: The Gloria Scott: A Matter of Size
Author: gardnerhill               
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Holmes knows the truth of the old adage: “Behind every great fortune…”
                                                                                       
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Watson perused the cryptic note. “Another outwardly-respectable man whose fortune sprang from his criminal past. Disgraceful.”

Holmes snorted. “Unsurprising. Noble families and grand English country homes – respected one and all – were built from the profits of slave labour in the Caribbean sugar trade.”

After a stunned silence, Watson laughed sadly. “I take your point, Holmes. Which is the greater crime?”

The Gloria Scott: Fortune in the Leaves

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Title: Fortune in the Leaves
Canon Story: The Gloria Scott
Rating: Gen
Summary: Somewhere in West Bengal...
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Discussion Post: The 'Gloria Scott'

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The ‘Gloria Scott’, and the chosen topic is Transportation to Australia.


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Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The 'Gloria Scott'

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Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then go on to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.

And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, are this week’s suggested poems to read—suggestions inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poems, and perhaps they may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.


Song of the Galley-Slaves

by Rudyard Kipling


Note from Rachel: This poem reminded me of James Armitage’s story.



If Feeling Isn’t In It

by John Brehm


Note from Rachel: Mr. Holmes owes a lot to Victor Trevor’s dog, doesn’t he? I like this celebration of simple loyalty and open emotion. I also like the line about how dogs instinctively bite ‘bringers of bad news’ – that fits Mr. Holmes all too well :)


Thank you so much to Rachel. (These young people and their typed faces. It will never catch on.) And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the lanturne. (The link will take you back to a previous poetry page.)


But you do not have to use that form. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The ‘Gloria Scott’ in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!



Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The 'Gloria Scott': Missed Opportunity

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Canon Story: The 'Gloria Scott'
Title: Missed Opportunity
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “...it's time we were all sent to a young misses' boarding-school.” (GLOR) “I was placed, however, in a comfortable boarding establishment at Edinburgh... In the year 1878 my father... came home. He telegraphed to me from London…” (SIGN) I’m ignoring here the bizarrely incongruous timeline in GLOR and going with the usual idea that Holmes was born in 1854.


Rhona rushed into the form room. “Did you hear about Mary Morstan’s father? Disappeared without trace in London! Sounds supernatural to me...”

“Don’t be daft. There’ll be a logical solution.” Ishbel considered. “Perhaps Mary should see that fellow my brother knows.”

“Who’s being daft now?”

Rhona took her place.

“If the police can’t help, what could this ‘Sherlock Holmes’ do?”

The Gloria Scott: The Cup That Cheers

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Canon Story: The Gloria Scott
Title: The Cup That Cheers (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

I had wondered for some time where Mrs Hudson purchased the excellent tea she provides on a Sunday afternoon, which is clearly far above our regular tea.  I am sure now it is being sent by Holmes’ old friend Victor Trevor.  Holmes makes no mention of it, but whenever he drinks that particular cup he smiles as if remembering someone.