Annie nurses him through his madness, Annie believes him and Annie gives him the strength to carry on. Annie is engaged to Percy Phelps who is suspected of stealing a vital document, and has a complete breakdown as a result. Holmes can immediately tell from Annie's handwriting that she is a woman of rare character with an exceptional nature.
Holmes is so impressed by Violet that Dr Watson expects more from the relationship, and is disappointed that he manifests no further interest in her. In fact, she does most of the detective work in this story, even if the men shut her out for the final denouement. Having escaped from this frightening house to consult with Mr Holmes, she is prepared to go back alone, knowing herself to be in danger, to solve the case. Holmes says to her ‘you seem to have acted all through this like a brave and sensible girl' and calls her a quite exceptional woman – high praise from Sherlock Holmes. As she says, her curiosity is almost as strong as her fears. She starts to investigate for herself, gathering clues, venturing into the forbidden parts of the house, subtly questioning her mysterious employers. After consulting with Mr Holmes – who repeatedly says no sister of his would take such a job – she does take up the position, whilst saying she will contact Sherlock Holmes if she feels she needs help.Īs it turns out, Violet is in danger. She must also wear an electric-blue dress when asked, and cut her luxuriant red hair short. She is to be governess to a small, and very nasty boy in a house called The Copper Beeches, in the middle of the countryside. Violet is an out of work governess who is offered a very unusual job. She risks everything to save those she loves. Despite the accusations against her, and the real risk of losing both her family and freedom, perhaps even her life, she refused to tell her husband his son was trying to kill the new baby, knowing that it would break his heart. Mrs Ferguson wasn't sucking blood, she was sucking poison out of a wound on her baby's neck – a wound caused by her husband's son by his first marriage. But Holmes refuses to believe in anything so fanciful, and as it turns out, he is right. When she is caught seemingly sucking blood from a wound on her baby's neck, everyone's thoughts fly to vampirism. We are never told Mrs Ferguson's name, only that she is foreign, exotic and beautiful. Here are five women who are the heroines in their Sherlock Holmes stories. However, the Holmes stories are full of independent, clever women who earn their own living, insist on their right to marry whom they choose (and divorce their husbands too) and are resourceful and brave.
Well, until he was beaten by Irene Adler, anyway, when his attitude began to change. He found them inscrutable, could not understand their motives, and generally though them a waste of time. Sherlock Holmes was not a whole-hearted admirer of women.
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