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Robert Louis Stevenson
Standard Name: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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| Textual Production | Elma Napier | The title is adapted from lines by travel-writer and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson
: For who would gravely set his face / To go to this or t'other place? / There's nothing under Heaven so... |
| 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). 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. |
| Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | After hearing her read from this work while it was still in progress, Henry Newbolt
sent a draft to Robert Louis Stevenson
. Stevenson responded enthusiastically but was not sure how the author could get... |
| Textual Production | Lettice Cooper | LC
published with Home and Van Thal
a volume in their English Novelists series: Robert Louis Stevenson: in 1967 it was reprinted in an European Novelists Series. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. TLS Archive (11 October 1947): 518 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 Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
's His Good Fairy, from the Illustrated London News of 28 May 1894, features a grand duchess of low origin who staves off guilt-induced madness by returning to live as a peasant and... |
| Textual Features | Beatrice Harraden | They mention the need for new funds and the way they will supplement previous subscriptions. Harraden, Beatrice, and Elizabeth Robins. “The Sussex Hospital”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 934, p. 750. 750 |
| Reception | Carol Ann Duffy | The year following her Selected Poems, CAD
won the Lannan Literary Award in the USA, and her work was included in the second volume of Penguin Modern Poets. A decade after that,... |
| 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 |
| Performance of text | Bryony Lavery | BL
's stage adaptation of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
opened as a Christmas show at the National Theatre
. Horspool, David. “Knockabout on Treasure Island”. Times Literary Supplement. |
| Literary responses | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | Only three years after the appearance of HCJ
's last novel, the young Robert Louis Stevenson
wrote dismissively of her work in a memoir of her son appended to two volumes of the latter's literary... |
| Literary responses | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Robert Louis Stevenson
wrote admiringly to his old acquaintance: I never see why you lay one touch rather than another, I cannot see why your make your breaks, all your craft is magic and mystery... |
| Literary responses | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Trollope
admired her work alongside that of Rhoda Broughton
, though he thought her writing lazy. Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages. 164 |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Ashton suggests that GE
anticipated the case made in Theodor Herzl
's The Jewish State, 1896. The first Jewish readers of the novel were delighted and impressed both by GE
's deep knowledge and... |
| Literary responses | Eleanor Farjeon | British Book News announced that this book gives Eleanor Farjeon a permanent place of honour between Stevenson
and Walter de la Mare
. British Book News. British Council. (1952): 122 |
| Literary responses | James Malcolm Rymer | One reader who loved this book was the young Robert Louis Stevenson
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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