Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Standard Name: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Naomi Royde-Smith | Its unnamed male protagonist, presented in the third person, is an artist back in London after thirty years away, staying in a flat in Piccadilly borrowed from his writer friend Humphrey Penderry. He and Penderry... |
Literary responses | James Malcolm Rymer | One reader who loved this book was the young Robert Louis Stevenson
. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jo Shapcott | |
Textual Production | Githa Sowerby | Before she turned her talents to drama, GS
published eleven children's books, most of them in verse. All were illustrated by her sister, Millicent Sowerby
, who also illustrated editions of Lewis Carroll
's Alice's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Muriel Spark | MS
wrote constantly as a schoolgirl. She often wrote poems (more sophisticated than her prose) at night while she minded her disabled grandmother. She says she was destined to poetry by all my mentors. Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable. 64 |
Textual Production | G. B. Stern | GBS
published No Son of Mine, a fictionalised account of a tramp who claimed to be the son of Robert Louis Stevenson
. When she wrote this she believed the story of the man... |
Textual Production | G. B. Stern | In 1954 GBS
and Sheila Kaye-Smith
collaborated once again, on He Wrote Treasure Island, The Story of Robert Louis Stevenson. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Jan Struther | JS
edited Robert Louis Stevenson
's classic adventure story Kidnapped for the Scholar's Library series in 1933. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Education | Rosemary Sutcliff | Rosemary's mother was probably her most important teacher. She told her stories which, no matter how outlandish and fantastic, the very young Rosemary accepted as literal truth; she later imparted all kinds of varied information... |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | ET
published another gender-conscious novel: Two Women of London: The Strange Case of Ms Jekyll and Mrs Hyde, which re-visions Robert Louis Stevenson
's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Publishing | Flora Thompson | The Catholic Fireside printed FT
's Skerryvore, named after and set in a house (near her own at Winton near Bournemouth), whose former owner Robert Louis Stevenson
had named it after a lighthouse. Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale. 70 and n1 |
Education | Mary Wesley | Mary acquired various country skills, like milking (by hand), butter-making, and of course riding. Wesley, Mary, and Kim Sayer. Part of the Scenery. Bantam. 19, 20 |
Textual Production | Mary Wesley | As a small child Mary Farmar (later MW
) spent hours telling herself stories set in particular locations derived from her reading of the Baroness Orczy
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, and Frederick Marryat
... |
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