Robert Louis Stevenson

Mary acquired various country skills, like milking (by hand), butter-making, and of course riding. She was not expected, however, to need to acquire skills that were marketable. Initially she was educated by about...

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 ...

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.

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).

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...

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...

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

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.

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.

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...

The prefatory poem To Her Book translates the traditional farewell from creator to creation (as written by Ovid and imitated by Chaucer , Robert Louis Stevenson , and others, and popularly called Go, little book...

One reader who loved this book was the young Robert Louis Stevenson .

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...

Trollope admired her work alongside that of Rhoda Broughton , though he thought her writing lazy.Robert Louis Stevenson dedicated a poem to her, inciting her to further literary biographies after reading A Book...

In London ATR connected or re-connected with friends including Kipling , Robert Louis Stevenson , Sidney Lee , Arnold Bennett , and Rhoda Broughton .