A Regimental Scandal (1892)

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This episode discusses the themes of honour and gambling in Arthur Conan Doyle's story 'A Regimental Scandal'.

This episode, we attend an army barracks where a card game raises questions of honour in ‘A Regimental Scandal’, published in 1892. You can read the story here. Listen to the episode below or on your podcaster of choice. The show notes will be available at https://bit.ly/DOD73sn (for all show notes, just replace ‘73’ with the episode number in question). The episode will shortly be posted to our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle. Please like and subscribe! Synopsis Major Errington is one of the most respected and popular officers in the Third Carabiniers, a veteran of numerous campaigns as both a soldier and a war correspondent. He is quiet, self-effacing and wise; he is also rich, but far from ostentatious. He is in fact more notable than the regiment’s nominal commander, Colonel Lovell, who is not unpopular but granted a degree of favour for his widely admired daughter, Violet. Lovell, or the Chief as he is known, is at heart an old-fashioned plunger who loves horses and gambling, but has also taken to playing the stock market and has had his fingers badly burned in American railway speculation. To recoup some of these losses, he takes to high-stakes games of…

People in this episode

Host: doingsofdoyle

Guest: Anastasia Klimchinskaya

Topics covered

• military
• gambling
• honour
• 19th century literature
• Arthur Conan Doyle

Keywords

• A Regimental Scandal
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Major Errington
• Colonel Lovell
• gambling
• honour
• 19th century

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