37 Facts About Mrs Hudson

Mrs Hudson is a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Mrs Hudson is the landlady of 221B Baker Street, the London residence in which Sherlock Holmes lives.

Mrs Hudson appears or is mentioned in many Sherlock Holmes stories, though her appearances are generally brief, and little information is given about the character.

Mrs Hudson has been made a more prominent character in multiple Sherlock Holmes adaptations in film, television, and other media.

Mrs Hudson is the landlady of 221B Baker Street, the London residence where Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson live in many of the stories.

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At one point in "A Scandal in Bohemia", Holmes calls the landlady "Mrs Turner", rather than Mrs Hudson, which has caused much speculation among Holmes fans.

Mrs Hudson, the landlady of Sherlock Holmes, was a long-suffering woman.

Mrs Hudson was fond of him, too, for he had a remarkable gentleness and courtesy in his dealings with women.

In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", Mrs Hudson is woken up early by the appearance of a client for Holmes and, by the time Watson is up, has "had the good sense to light the fire" according to Holmes.

Mrs Hudson is the landlady of 221B Baker Street, and appears to perform various tasks such as preparing meals.

Mrs Hudson serves curried chicken in "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" and woodcock in "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle".

Mrs Hudson occasionally brings Holmes a card or telegram on a tray, for instance when she brings Holmes the card of John Garrideb in "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs" and a telegram in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men".

Mrs Hudson brings Holmes a telegram in "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans".

Cooke adds that essays written about Mrs Hudson have influenced the general conception of the character, one of the most influential being "The Singular Adventures of Martha Hudson" by Vincent Starrett, originally published in 1934.

Starrett suggested that Mrs Hudson's first name is Martha, and described Mrs Hudson as a "housekeeper", though in the original stories she is only referred to as a "landlady", which is a separate occupation.

Mrs Hudson was played by Edith Schultze-Westrum in Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace, Barbara Leake in A Study in Terror, Irene Handl in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Alison Leggatt in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Betty Woolfe in Murder by Decree, and Pat Keen in Without a Clue.

Mrs Hudson appears in the 2002 anime film Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street, in which she is voiced by Kei Hayami in the original Japanese release, and Emily Gray in the English-language dub.

Mrs Hudson was played by Sarah Crowden in Mr Holmes and by Kelly Macdonald in Holmes and Watson.

Mrs Hudson normally stays behind at 221B Baker Street, but accompanies Hound and Watson on a few cases, usually any that involve something related to flight, and is shown to be a very skilled driver, pilot, and marksman.

Mrs Hudson is once kidnapped by Professor Moriarty and his henchmen as a part of a scheme to defeat Hound, though Moriarty vows to never involve her in his schemes after she shows him kindness during the time she's kept as a hostage.

Mrs Hudson is voiced by Yoko Asagami in the original Japanese release and by Patricia Parris in the English-language dub.

Mrs Hudson was portrayed by Jenny Laird in The Masks of Death, Margaret John in the television films Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady and Incident at Victoria Falls, and Kathleen McAuliffe in the television films The Royal Scandal and The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire.

Mrs Hudson offers Holmes a lower rent because he helped her out by ensuring the conviction and execution of her husband in Florida after he murdered two people.

In "A Scandal in Belgravia" when agents torture Mrs Hudson trying to find a mobile phone, Sherlock repeatedly throws the agent responsible out of an upper-level window, and later states that "England would fall" if Mrs Hudson left Baker Street.

Mrs Hudson appears in the 19th episode of the US series Elementary, "Snow Angels", as an expert in Ancient Greek who essentially makes a living as a kept woman and muse for various wealthy men; Holmes allows her to stay in the apartment after a break-up, and she subsequently agrees to clean for them once a week as a source of income and to prevent Holmes from having to do it himself.

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Mrs Hudson was portrayed by Ingeborga Dapkunaite in the Russian 2013 television series Sherlock Holmes.

Mrs Hudson loves singing and baking biscuits and calls Holmes by his first name Sherlock.

Mrs Hudson is particularly kind to him and Watson because Holmes saves her when she is in a predicament in the first episode "The First Adventure", which was loosely based on A Study in Scarlet.

Mrs Hudson is Holmes's client in an episode of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Hudson Problem".

Mrs Hudson was voiced by June Whitfield in the 1999 radio series The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes.

Mrs Hudson was portrayed by Patricia Hodge in the 2-episode comedic radio play Mrs Hudson's Radio Show in 2018.

Mrs Clara Hudson is a much more developed character in Laurie R King's series of novels focusing on the detective scholar Mary Russell.

Mrs Hudson takes the young and emotionally fragile Russell under her wing, and Russell comes to think of her as a friend, a second mother, and a rock in the whirl of danger that always surrounds Holmes.

In Sherlock Holmes' War of the Worlds it is suggested that Holmes and the younger Mrs Hudson had a long-lasting love relationship, obvious to all but the naive Watson.

Mrs Hudson is a detective in The House at Baker Street and The Women of Baker Street, by Michelle Birkby, and in Susan Knight's 2019 book Mrs Hudson Investigates.

Mrs Hudson was played by Paddy Edwards in the 1965 musical Baker Street, though the character does not perform any of the songs in the musical.

Mrs Hudson appears briefly in the Mythos Software video games The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel and The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo.