Robert Louis Stevenson

This examines the lives of Mary Livingstone (mid-Victorian daughter of a missionary in Africa, who married the more famous missionary David Livingstone , a colleague and protégé of her father), Fanny Stevenson (late Victorian...

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 .

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...

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 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...

GBS published No Son of Mine, a fictionalised account of a tramp who claimed to be the son of Robert Louis Stevenson .

DM 's fourth travel book, In Ethiopia with a Mule, moves to a continent that is new for her (Africa instead of Asia) and is the first of her several travel books to feature...

In 1954 GBS and Sheila Kaye-Smith collaborated once again, on He Wrote Treasure Island, The Story of Robert Louis Stevenson. Stern also wrote introductions to texts of works both by Austen and by Stevenson.

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

JS edited Robert Louis Stevenson 's classic adventure story Kidnapped for the Scholar's Library series in 1933. Another book of verse for children, When Grandmamma was Small, 1937, was adapted from the Swedish of...

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...

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).

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...