Robert Louis Stevenson

As the title suggests, Polly Flint's chief passion is for Daniel Defoe , to whose writing she brings a passionate, intelligent naiveté and great perception. She fiercely contradicts those who suppose that Defoe lacked imagination...

CG published, as the author of Knee-capped (a reference to R. L. Stevenson 's Kidnapped), her parody The Pirate's Hand, A Romance of Heredity.

Marion Greene was also, on her mother's side, a first cousin once removed of Robert Louis Stevenson .

They mention the need for new funds and the way they will supplement previous subscriptions. They specify some of the material they have already collected from other authors and publishers to sell on...

Doubt remains over the authorship of Some Good Intentions and a Blunder. It appears to have been published only in New York.

Acquainted with Andrew Lang through her mother 's social circle, VH shaped her own poetry under his influence. Partly because of Lang's connections, her romantic poem The Death of the Shameful Knight was published in...

Charles Jenkin's family was Welsh but had lived in England for generations and was now settled at Northiam in Sussex. His father had died eight months before, leaving nothing but debt behind him. Charles...

Fleeming (pronounced Fleming) Jenkin had great abilities that were evident from an early age. His biographer, Robert Louis Stevenson , rates his mother's influence over him very high, and admires though he cannot wholly approve...

The following summer she recovered from this frenzy and set to work, although now both deaf and aphasic, trying to repair her loss of language by the use of dictionaries. A third stroke, however, scattered...

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...

Kipling's fame brought easy acquaintances with celebrities. In November 1894, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stayed as a guest in his American home. On the death in Samoa of Robert Louis Stevenson (whom he had never...

Probably Larkin's most widely-known poem appeared in this volume. Combining the colloquial with the lapidary, it presents a shockingly terse summary statement about the handing on of emotional pain in families: They fuck you up...

BL 's stage adaptation of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson opened as a Christmas show at the National Theatre .

EL 's ancestors were Scottish; they hailed from Midlothian. They claimed kinship with David Balfour, the hero of Robert Louis Stevenson 's Kidnapped, and Sir John Harington , the Elizabethan inventor of the water closet.

RM published another novel, Orphan Island, a tongue-in-cheek contribution to the exotic-adventure genre of The Coral IslandR. M. Ballantyne and Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson .