Задание

Here are the portraits of Arthur Conan Doyle’s wives in front of you. About whom of them did Arthur Conan Doyle write in the text that you have just read?

Every one found themselves doing strange things. I was not only a private in the Volunteers, but I was a signaller and I was for a time number one of a machine gun. My wife started a home for Belgian refugees in Crow-borough. My son was a soldier, first, last, and all the time. My daughter Mary gave herself up altogether to public work, making shells at Vickers' and afterwards serving in a canteen. If I may quote a passage from my history: «Grotesque combinations resulted from the eagerness of all classes to lend a hand. An observer has described how a peer and a prize-fighter worked on the same bench at Woolwich, while titled ladies and young girls from cultured homes earned sixteen shillings a week at Erith and boasted in the morning of the number of shell-cases which they had turned, and finished in their hours of night-shift. Truly it had become a national war. Of all its memories none will be stranger than those of the peaceful middle-aged civilians who were seen eagerly reading books of elementary drill in order to prepare themselves to meet the most famous soldiers in Europe, or of the schoolgirls and matrons who donned blue blouses and by their united work surpassed the output of the great death factories of Essen».

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Jean Elizabeth Leckie (1874 – 1940) was the second wife of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They married in 1907, but Conan Doyle was in love with her since 1897. Together they had three children: Denis, Adrian, and Lena Jean.

Louisa Hawkins (1857 – 1906) was the first wife of Arthur Conan Doyle. They married in 1885. She gave him two children: Mary and Kingsley. Louisa suffered tuberculosis and died in 1906 because of it.