Sherlock Holmes and Mrs. Hudson. Mrs. Hudson Mrs. Hudson has the best soundtrack for cleaning the house

The owner of the apartment at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson live.

Story

In Conan Doyle's books, Mrs. Hudson is a minor character. Mentions of her are very sketchy, but in the story “The Treaty of the Sea” it is hinted that she may be Scottish.

Mrs. Hudson rises to the occasion,” Holmes said, removing the lid from the curried chicken. “She doesn’t add too much variety to the table, but breakfast is conceived no worse than that of a Scottish woman.”

She represents a woman who wants to keep her house clean and often fights with Sherlock Holmes about this. Watson describes Mrs. Hudson as a very good cook. Watson barely touches on describing her appearance or mentioning her name. In film and television adaptations, she is typically portrayed as a lonely older woman, although on rare occasions she appears as a young woman, such as in the anime series Detective Holmes, in which she is called "Maria". In the new Russian TV series “Sherlock Holmes” she received the name “Martha”.

Watson on the relationship between Holmes and Mrs. Hudson in the story “Sherlock Holmes at Death”:

Sherlock Holmes's landlady, Mrs. Hudson, was a real martyr. Not only was the second floor of her house at any time subject to invasion by strange and often unpleasant personalities, but her famous tenant himself cruelly tested the hostess’s patience with his eccentricity and carelessness. His extreme carelessness, his habit of playing music at the most inopportune hours of the day, sometimes firing a revolver in the room, the mysterious and very unaromatic chemical experiments that he often performed, and the whole atmosphere of crime and danger that surrounded him, made Holmes perhaps the most inconvenient lodger. in London. But, on the other hand, he paid like a king. I have no doubt that the money he paid Mrs. Hudson over the years of our friendship would have been enough to buy her entire house.
She revered Holmes and never dared to contradict him, although his lifestyle caused her a lot of anxiety. She liked him for his amazing gentleness and politeness in dealing with women. He did not like women and did not trust them, but he always treated them with chivalrous courtesy.

Mrs Turner

In the story “A Scandal in Bohemia,” Holmes says: “ When Mrs. Turner brings dinner, I'll explain everything to you...» Is "Mrs. Turner" the result of a mistake by the publisher/author who meant "Mrs. Hudson" or is Mrs. Turner a servant of Mrs. Hudson? There is no exact answer to this question.

In the collection “The Return of Sherlock Holmes,” in the original manuscript of the story “The Empty House,” the name of Mrs. Turner reappeared, but was crossed out and replaced by Arthur Doyle with Mrs. Hudson. This supports the theory that the name "Mrs. Turner" was an error on the part of the author.

In the series "Sherlock" Mrs. Turner turns out to be Mrs. Hudson's neighbor.

Works

To the cinema

In the series of films about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, filmed between and 1946, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, the role of Mrs. Hudson is played by Mary Gordon.

In the 2010s British television series Sherlock, set in the 21st century, the role of Mrs. Hudson was played by actress Una Stubbs. The following is reported about Mrs. Hudson: “Martha Louise Hudson (née Sissons), widow, untreated alcoholic, former “exotic dancer,” 21% of loans defaulted. Pain point: marijuana.” It is also reported that Mrs. Hudson once worked as a secretary for her husband, the leader of a drug cartel.

In the American TV series Elementary, the character Mrs. Hudson is mixed with Dr. Watson in the form Dr Joan Watson (

Today we admire our favorite - Mrs. Hudson. Meet!

Owner of property at address 221B Baker Street She has proven to us more than once that she is something special. Either he will remember herbs for the thigh, or his turbulent youth. But the fourth season became truly stellar for her. We found exactly 11 reasons for this.

ATTENTION, SPOILERS!

1. “I’m not a housekeeper”

From season to season, the sweet woman repeated the same thing to us. But in the fourth, she doesn’t even have to do that. Subtle hints decide everything!

2. If not a housekeeper, then...

And gradually we learned about Mrs. Hudson's dark past. For those who have forgotten, we will repeat it.

3. Her driving skills

In the first seconds of the appearance of a crazy red car on the screen, we didn’t think about anyone. But not about Mrs. Hudson! By the way, she drives an Aston Martin.

4. And the manner of communication with the police

Because how else can you communicate with an officer when you have just finished a conversation with the British government.

5. She can put the government itself in its place

In the person of Mycroft, but still...

6. Mrs. Hudson is a master at telling the truth to your face.

Honestly. Hurt. But 100% true.

7. And Mrs. Hudson doesn’t skimp on compliments.

She just doesn't make them very pleasant.

8. Mrs. Hudson always knows where the handcuffs are in the house.

And I took them several times. Apparently, she was remembering her tumultuous youth. However, holding a weapon in her hands is also not new to her.

The audience's reaction was similar to Sherlock's.

9. Mrs. Hudson has the best soundtrack for cleaning the house

Do you often vacuum while listening to Iron Maiden? Apparently, he and Moriarty share their playlists, there’s no other way to put it.

10. But we know she has a good heart.

And even if she says: "No" when you ask to ride in her luxury car...

...she will definitely give you the keys later.

11. Because in the end, only Mrs. Hudson realized the truth about Sherlock

It was from her that we learned that Sherlock is a walking emotion, and not just some kind of mind.

Sherlock Holmes and Mrs Hudson

Another significant woman in Holmes' life is, without a doubt, Mrs. Hudson, the owner of the apartment in which he lived for more than twenty years. And most likely, she is the only woman with whom he communicated for so long and closely.

Conan Doyle described her rather sparingly, so Mrs. Hudson's age and appearance can be judged very roughly. Most likely she was middle-aged or elderly and quite possibly quite heavy - Watson calls her gait “majestic.” Probably a widow, but it is quite possible that she was separated from her husband - for that time this was a fairly common situation (divorces were complicated, but spouses could separate and live separately for decades).

Some researchers believe that Mrs. Hudson's name was Martha. This version is based on the assumption that the spy Martha who helped Holmes from the story “His Farewell Bow” is Mrs. Hudson.

According to Watson, it is also known that she was a good but not very varied cook, loved cleanliness and suffered because of Holmes’s sloppiness and strange habits. However, she put up with everything because she respected him very much.

Moreover, when her help was needed, Mrs. Hudson actively got involved in the matter - as you know, in the story “The Empty House” she crawled up to the wax figure of Holmes and changed its position to create the impression that it was a living person. For a respectable old English lady, this is almost a feat.

Thanks to a long-standing habit, the chain of inferences arises in me so quickly that I came to the conclusion without even noticing the intermediate premises.

In the story “Sherlock Holmes Near Death,” Watson says: “Sherlock Holmes's landlady, Mrs. Hudson, was a real martyr. Not only was the second floor of her house at any time subject to invasion by strange and often unpleasant personalities, but her famous tenant himself cruelly tested the hostess’s patience with his eccentricity and carelessness. His extreme sloppiness, his habit of playing music at the most inopportune hours of the day, sometimes firing a revolver in the room, the mysterious and very unaromatic chemical experiments that he often performed, and the whole atmosphere of crime and danger that surrounded him, made Holmes perhaps the most inconvenient tenant. in London. But, on the other hand, he paid like a king. I have no doubt that the money he paid Mrs. Hudson over the years of our friendship would have been enough to buy her entire house.

She revered Holmes and never dared to contradict him, although his lifestyle caused her a lot of anxiety."

Mrs. Hudson's attitude towards Holmes did not deteriorate even after he twice very cruelly tricked her - once by making her believe in his death, and the second by pretending to be terminally ill. Moreover, he knew about her feelings and played on them deliberately. Perhaps, it seems that over the years spent together, Holmes has become for Mrs. Hudson something like a beloved nephew, whom one can be proud of and forgive him for any sins.

A man, no matter how badly he treats a woman, never believes that her love is completely lost to him.

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Mrs. Hudson is a woman who wants to keep the house clean and tidy, and often resents Holmes because of this. Dr. Watson describes her as an excellent cook, while in the story "The Naval Treaty" Holmes clarifies that Mrs. Hudson's cooking is not very varied, but for a Scot she sets the breakfast table well.

From this statement it follows that Mrs. Hudson, of whom references are very fragmentary, is Scottish. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle does not actually provide the reader with a physical image of Hudson, and only in the collection "His Last Bow" is her name mentioned - Martha.

Dr. Watson describes the relationship between detective Holmes and his landlady Hudson in the novel "The Adventure of the Dying Detective". Dr. Watson calls her a long-suffering woman who suffered an invasion of strange and mostly unpleasant personalities, who at any time of the day or night went up to Holmes on the second floor. Mrs. Hudson put up with an eccentric and careless detective-tenant who, in addition to being grossly sloppy, could start playing the violin at the most inopportune hours.

Martyr Hudson got perhaps the worst tenant in all of London, who sometimes fired a revolver right in his apartment. Under her nose, he conducted dubious and often smelly chemical experiments. And, of course, Mrs. Hudson, willy-nilly, plunged into the atmosphere of crime and danger that constantly surrounded the detective. However, Dr. Watson adds that Hudson should have been pleased with the generosity of Holmes, who paid the rent “royally.”

From Doyle’s narrative it follows that the hostess, in general, always revered Holmes, was in deep delight and never dared to contradict him, despite the sometimes outrageous behavior of the London detective. She loved him for his amazing gentleness and politeness that Sherlock showed when interacting with the opposite sex. The detective himself, although he appeared to women in the guise of a knight, never believed them and did not love them.

At one point in the story "A Scandal in Bohemia", Holmes calls his landlady "Mrs. Turner" rather than "Mrs. Hudson." And this provoked a lot of controversy among fans of the London detective. Whether it was just a mistake by the writer or whether Mrs. Turner served as a servant for Mrs. Hudson is not known for certain.

On the big screen and on television, Mrs. Hudson, as a rule, appears to the viewer as an elderly woman. In rare cases, such as in the anime series The Great Sherlock Holmes, where all the classic characters look like dogs, Hudson is not an elderly lady, but a young woman.

In the BBC television series Sherlock, she offers the detective a lower rent, gets along well with him and is progressive in her views with Sherlock and Watson. In the episode "A Scandal in Belgravia", Mrs. Hudson is taken hostage by CIA agents. Sherlock throws the leader of the agents out the window, kills the others, and then declares that “England will fall” if Mrs. Hudson leaves Baker Street.

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Magnussen: I would offer you a drink but it’s very rare and expensive.

Sherlock: Oh. It was you.
Magnussen: Yes, of course. Very hard to find a pressure point on you, Mr Holmes. The drugs thing I never believed for a moment. Anyway, you wouldn’t care if it was exposed, would you?

Magnussen: But look how you care about John Watson. Your damsel in distress.
John: You... put me in a fire... for leverage?
Magnussen: Oh, I'd never let you burn, Doctor Watson. I had people standing by. I’m not a murderer... unlike your wife.

Magnussen: Let me explain how leverage works, Doctor Watson. For those who understand these things, Mycroft Holmes is the most powerful man in the country. Well... apart from me. Mycroft’s pressure point is his junkie detective brother, Sherlock. And Sherlock’s pressure point is his best friend, John Watson. John Watson's pressure point is his wife. I own John Watson's wife... I own Mycroft. He’s what I’m getting for Christmas.

Sherlock: It’s an exchange, not a gift.
Magnussen: Forgive me, but... I already seem to have it.

Sherlock: It's password protected. In return for the password, you will give me any material in your possession pertaining to the woman I know as Mary Watson.
Magnussen: Oh, she's bad, that one. So many dead people. You should see what I've seen.
John: I don't need to see it.
Magnussen: You might enjoy it, though. I enjoy it.
Sherlock: Then why don’t you show us?
Magnussen: Show you Appledore? The secret vaults? Is that what you want?
Sherlock: I want everything you've got on Mary.
Magnussen: You know, I honestly expected something good.

Sherlock: Oh, I think you’ll find the contents of that laptop...
Magnussen:... include a GPS locator. By now, your brother will have noticed theft, and security services will be converging on this house. Having arrived... they’ll find top secret information in my hands... and have every justification to search my vaults. They will discover further information of this kind and I’ll be imprisoned. You will be exonerated, and restored to your smelly little apartment to solve crimes with Mr and Mrs Psychopath. Mycroft has been looking for this opportunity for a long time. He'll be a very, very proud big brother.

Sherlock: The fact that you know it’s going to happen isn’t going to stop it.
Magnussen: Then why am I smiling? Ask me.
John: Why are you smiling?
Magnussen: Because Sherlock Holmes has made one enormous mistake which will destroy the lives of everyone he loves... and everything he holds dear. Let me show you the Appledore vaults.

Magnussen: The entrance to my vaults. This is where I keep you all.
John: Okay – so where are the vaults, then?
Magnussen: Vaults? What vaults? There are no vaults beneath this building. They're all in here. The Appledore vaults are my Mind Palace. You know about Mind Palaces, don’t you, Sherlock? How to store information so you never forget it – by picturing it. I just sit here, I close my eyes... and down I go to my vaults. I can go anywhere inside my vaults... my memories. I'll look at the files on Mrs Watson. Mmm, ah. This is one of my favorites. Oh, it's so exciting. All those wet jobs for the CIA. Ooh! She’s gone a bit... freelance now. Bad girl. Ah, she is so wicked. I can really see why you like her. Do you see?

John: So there are no documents. You don't actually have anything here.
Magnussen: Oh, sometimes I send out for something... if I really need it... but mostly I just remember it all.
John: I don't understand.
Magnussen: You should have that on a T-shirt.
John: Do you just remember it all?
Magnussen: It's all about knowledge. Everything is. Knowing is owning.
John: But if you just know it, then you don’t have proof.
Magnussen: Proof? What would I need proof for? I'm in news, you're moron. I don’t have to prove it – I just have to print it. Speaking of news, you’ll both be heavily featured tomorrow – trying to sell state secrets to me. Let's go outside. They'll be here shortly. Can't wait to see you arrested.

John: Sherlock, do we have a plan? Sherlock

Magnussen: They're taking their time, aren't they?
John: I still don’t understand.

Magnussen: And there’s the back of the T-shirt.
John: You just know things. How does that work?
Magnussen: I just love your little soldier face. I'd like to punch it. Bring it over here a minute. Come on. For Mary.

Magnussen: Bring me your face. Lean forward a bit and stick your face out. Please? Now, can I flick it? Can I flick your face? I just love doing this. I could do it all day. It works like this, John. I know who Mary hurt and killed. I know where to find people who hate her. I know where they live; I know their phone numbers. All in my Mind Palace – all of it. I could phone them right now and tear your whole life down – and I will... unless you let me flick your face. This is what I do to people. This is what I do to whole countries... just because I know. Can I do your eye now? See if you can keep it open, hmm? Come on. For Mary. Keep it open.

John: Sherlock?
Sherlock: Let him. I'm sorry. Just... let him.
Magnussen: Come on. Eye open. It’s difficult, isn’t it? Janine managed it once. She makes the funniest noises.

Mycroft: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. Stand away from that man.
Magnussen: Here we go, Mr Holmes!
Sherlock: To clarify: Appledore’s vaults only exist in your mind, nowhere else, just there.
Magnussen: They're not real. They never have been.
Mycroft: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. Step away.

Magnussen: It's fine! They're harmless!
Police officer: Target is not armed. I repeat, target is not armed.
John: Sherlock, what do we do?
Magnussen: Nothing! There's nothing to be done! Oh, I'm not a villain. I have no evil plan. I’m a businessman, acquiring assets. You happen to be one of them! Sorry. No chance for you to be a hero this time, Mr Holmes.
Mycroft: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, stand away from that man. Do it now.
Sherlock: Oh, do your research. I'm not a hero...
I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Merry Christmas!

Police officer: Man down, man down.
Sherlock: Get away from me, John! Stay well back!
John: Christ, Sherlock!
Mycroft: Stand fire! Do not fire on Sherlock Holmes! Don't fire!

John: Oh, Christ, Sherlock.
Sherlock: Give my love to Mary. Tell her she's safe now.
Mycroft: Oh Sherlock. What have you done?