Robert Louis Stevenson

Critic Elaine Campbell reads EN 's collection of travel-stories as belonging to the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson and Alec Waugh .

The work has been consistently admired. On its appearance the editor of The Spectator praised it for wonderful mastery of the borderland of the natural and the supernatural, and said it demonstrated MO

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...

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...

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

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.

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,...

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...

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...

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 .

LAT provided several introductions to works for children. One of these was for a new edition of Robert Louis Stevenson 's A Child's Garden of Verses, 1927, illustrated by Kate Elizabeth Olver ,

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.

She gave up her editorship only when other writing commitments and her growing children made it impossible to continue. During those six years she used to eat breakfast at half past seven, receive her first...

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...

She later said the non-realism of this tale had dissatisfied her. She acknowledged the influence on it of Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson , and then judged that the best bits . . . have...