Marie Tussaud particularly well financially, and left for Edinburgh in 1803. As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, Tussaud was unable to return to France so she travelled with her collection throughout the British Isles. In 1822, she reunited with her other son, François, who joined her in the family business. Her husband remained in France and the two never saw each other again. In 1835, after 33 years touring Britain, she established her first permanent exhibition in Baker Street, on the upper floor of the "Baker Street Bazaar". In 1838, she wrote her memoirs. In 1842, she made a self-portrait which
The Field Bazaar Holmes Society (forerunner of the modern Sherlock Holmes Society of London), sent it to the head of the Society, A.G. Macdonell. Macdonell printed 100 copies of the story. He distributed them to other members of the Society and, when he visited the United States, to their American counterparts, the Baker Street Irregulars. The Irregulars published their own edition in 1947. Since then, "The Field Bazaar" has been republished several times, including appearances in collections edited by leading scholars of Conan Doyle and of Holmes. All modern editions silently correct a typographical oddity in the original 1896 version — missing quotation