“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Standard Name: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Monica Dickens | MD
published her first book since she married, the novel No More Meadows, titled from a chilling remark about marriage by Robert Louis Stevenson
. Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann. 130 |
| Textual Production | Mary Wesley | 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
... |
| Textual Production | E. A. Dillwyn | EAD
contributed to The Spectator (edited by her father's friend R. H. Hutton
) during the 1880s and 90s, writing nearly sixty anonymous reviews for it. She was among the first to praise Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | 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
. Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago. 165, 338 Macaulay, Rose. Letters to a Friend from Rose Macaulay 1950-1952. Editor Babington Smith, Constance, Fontana. 356 |
| Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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... |
| Textual Features | Beatrice Harraden | They mention the need for new funds and the way they will supplement previous subscriptions. Harraden, Beatrice, and Elizabeth Robins. “The Sussex Hospital”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 934, p. 750. 750 |
| Reception | Carol Ann Duffy | 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,... |
| Publishing | Flora Thompson | 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. Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale. 70 and n1 |
| Performance of text | Bryony Lavery | BL
's stage adaptation of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
opened as a Christmas show at the National Theatre
. Horspool, David. “Knockabout on Treasure Island”. Times Literary Supplement. |
| Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | By the time of her death, MEB
's novels had received praise from many great writers of her day, including George Moore
, Arnold Bennett
, Robert Louis Stevenson
and Thomas Hardy
. Her astonishingly... |
| Literary responses | Elma Napier | Critic Elaine Campbell
reads EN
's collection of travel-stories as belonging to the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson
and Alec Waugh
. Campbell, Elaine. “An Expatriate at Home: Dominica’s Elma Napier”. Kunapipi, Vol. 4 , No. 1, Dangaroo Press, pp. 82-93. 86 |
| Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | 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, Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research. 159: 256 |
| Literary responses | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | 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... |
| Literary responses | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | 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... |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Ashton suggests that GE
anticipated the case made in Theodor Herzl
's The Jewish State, 1896. The first Jewish readers of the novel were delighted and impressed both by GE
's deep knowledge and... |
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