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Irene Adler is a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A former opera singer and actress, she was featured in the short story "A Scandal in Bohemia", published in July 1891. Adler is one of the most notable female characters in the Sherlock Holmes series, despite appearing in only one story.
Irene Adler died giving birth to her in the early 1890s, and Holmes gave her up for adoption. By the outbreak of World War I she is a widowed nurse with a young son, but has the same gift for deductive reasoning as her father, and joins Dr. John Watson, Jr. in a series of mystery adventures, which Dr. Watson Sr. narrates.
Jane Clare Jones, a doctoral student of feminist ethics writing in her blog on The Guardian ' s website, criticised episode writer Steven Moffat's representation of Irene Adler, arguing that her sexualisation was a regressive step. She writes, "While Conan Doyle's original is hardly an exemplar of gender evolution, you've got to worry when a ...
The 1965 Broadway musical Baker Street was loosely based on the story, making Irene Adler into the heroine and adding Professor Moriarty as the villain. [ 11 ] Steven Dietz 's 2006 play Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure , adapted from the 1899 play Sherlock Holmes , merges the storylines of "A Scandal in Bohemia" and " The Final Problem ...
The king gives Holmes Irene's addresses before he leaves. Over the course of two days, Holmes investigates Adler disguised as an unemployed groom. He learns that Adler has a regular visitor, a lawyer named Godfrey Norton of the Inner Temple. Recounting the story later to Watson, Holmes describes Adler as having a "face a man might die for ...
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