Word: summerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arthur Conan Doyle, 71, author (The White Company, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Micah Clarke, The Hound of the Baskervilles, History of Spiritualism, The Coming of the Fairies); suddenly, of heart disease; at Crowborough, Sussex, England. One of the world's foremost exponents of Spiritualism, he published much information about "summerland," the Spiritualists' hereafter (marriage, cocktails, wine, eternal youth, no childbirth). For the wicked, he believed, there is no Hell, only centuries of waiting "in a grey drab room." According to Sir Arthur's tenets his soul remained in abeyance, earthbound and neuter, for three days. By now it has been...