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Robert Louis Stevenson
Standard Name: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Forster | 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... |
Textual Production | Clotilde Graves | 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. |
Textual Production | L. T. Meade | 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... |
Textual Production | Githa Sowerby | 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... |
Textual Production | Laurence Alma-Tadema | 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
, Here... |
Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | 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... |
Textual Production | G. B. Stern | GBS
published No Son of Mine, a fictionalised account of a tramp who claimed to be the son of Robert Louis Stevenson
. When she wrote this she believed the story of the man... |
Textual Production | John Oliver Hobbes | Doubt remains over the authorship of Some Good Intentions and a Blunder. It appears to have been published only in New York. So says Harding, and it is not listed in the British... |
Textual Production | Dervla Murphy | 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... |
Textual Production | G. B. Stern | In 1954 GBS
and Sheila Kaye-Smith
collaborated once again, on He Wrote Treasure Island, The Story of Robert Louis Stevenson. 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 Production | Jan Struther | JS
edited Robert Louis Stevenson
's classic adventure story Kidnapped for the Scholar's Library series in 1933. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
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 | 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 | 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). Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. 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 | 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. |
Timeline
13 November 1850: Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist and travel...
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13 November 1850
Robert Louis Stevenson
, novelist and travel writer, was born in Edinburgh.
By 1 December 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson published his most...
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By 1 December 1883
Robert Louis Stevenson
published his most famous children's book, the boys' adventure storyTreasure Island.
By 13 May 1885: Robert Louis Stevenson published A Child's...
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By 13 May 1885
Robert Louis Stevenson
published A Child's Garden of Verses, a collection of rhymes which proved to have great staying power, and was hardly out of print for a hundred years.
30 September 1885: H. Rider Haggard published his first successful...
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30 September 1885
H. Rider Haggard
published his first successful adventurenovel, King Solomon's Mines (which he said he wrote in six weeks to win a bet with his brother that he could equal Stevenson
's Treasure Island).
By 16 January 1886: Robert Louis Stevenson published The Strange...
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By 16 January 1886
Robert Louis Stevenson
published The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
1 May 1886: Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped...
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1 May 1886
Robert Louis Stevenson
's novelKidnapped began serialization in Young Folks magazine. It was an instant and huge hit.
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
1 May 2012
1887: The monthly Atalanta: Every Girl's Magazine...
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1887
The monthlyAtalanta: Every Girl's Magazine began publication.
3 December 1894: Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist and travel...
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3 December 1894
Robert Louis Stevenson
, novelist and travel writer, died in Apia, Samoa.
1996: US punk writer Kathy Acker published Pussy,...
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1996
US punk writer Kathy Acker
published Pussy, King of the Pirates, a feminist-pornographic reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson
's Treasure Island in which the treasure-seekers are a band of women pirates.
1 July 2007: British publisher Tank Books released a series...
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1 July 2007
British publisher Tank Books
released a series of classic books, Tales to Take Your Breath Away, designed to mimic cigarette packets—the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in cellophane.
TankBooks: Tales to Take Your Breath Away. http://web.archive.org/web/20090620103236/http://www.tankmagazine.com/tankbooks/.
Texts
Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin et al., Longmans, Green, 1877, p. 1: xi - clxx.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Editors Booth, Bradford A. and Ernest Mehew, Yale University Press, 1994.