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Robert Louis Stevenson Profile

Robert Louis Stevenson
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  Born:  8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, 13th November 1850.

  Died:  Samoa, 1894.

  Scottish poet and novelist.  Probably best known for his novels Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886) and The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).

  Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850.  He was baptised Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson, but he dropped the name 'Balfour' and changed 'Lewis' to 'Louis' at about the age of eighteen.  From 1867 he studied law at Edinburgh University, qualified as an advocate and was called to the bar in 1875, although he never practised law.

  Poor health took Stevenson to Europe where he travelled in the hope of improving his constitution, and in 1879 he travelled to the USA where he married Fanny Osbourne (née Van de Grift), before returning to Britain in 1880.

  In 1890 he settled in Samoa in the South Pacific where he hoped to be cured of tuberculosis, but sadly, in 1894, he succumbed to the disease and died.

  Robert Louis Stevenson produced some of his later work in collaboration with his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne.

Works with publication dates:

An Inland Voyage (1878)
Travels with a Donkey (1879)
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
Treasure Island (1883)
The Black Arrow (1885)
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
Kidnapped (1886)
The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
The Wrong Box (1889) [with Lloyd Osbourne]
The Wrecker (1892) [with Lloyd Osbourne]
Catriona (1893)
The Ebb-tide (1894) [with Lloyd Osbourne]

 

Links

National Library of Scotland - Robert Louis Stevenson
http://www.nls.uk/rlstevenson/

Stevenson House - Robert Louis Stevenson's house in Edinburgh
http://www.stevenson-house.co.uk/

The Millennium Library - Robert Louis Stevenson
http://www.millenniumlibrary.co.uk/millib/reference/
notes.php?entry=Robert%20Louis%20Stevenson&fromdb=2

Scottish Authors - Robert Louis Stevenson
http://www.slainte.org.uk/scotauth/stevedsw.htm

A selection of books by Robert Louis Stevenson available from W.H. Smith:
 

Body Snatcher  (paperback)

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde  (paperback)

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and "The Merry Men" and Other Tales and Fables  (paperback)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  (hardback)

Kidnapped  (paperback)

Kidnapped  (hardback)

Master of Ballantrae  (paperback)

Master of Ballantrae / Weir of Hermiston  (hardback)

Suicide Club  (paperback)

Treasure Island  (paperback)

Treasure Island  (hardback)

Kidnapped and Catriona  (paperback)

Ebb-tide  (paperback)

Ebb-tide  (hardback)

Tales from the South Sea The Beach at Falesa / The Bottle Imp / The Wrecker / The Ebb Tide / The Isle of Voices / Letters  (paperback)

Child's Garden of Verses  (paperback)

Child's Garden of Verses  (hardback)

Collected Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson The Critical Heritage

Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

Collected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Vol I

Collected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Vol II

Collected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Vol III

Collected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Vol IV

Collected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Vol V

Collected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Vol VI

Collected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Vol VII

Collected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Vol VIII

An Inland Voyage