Robert Louis Stevenson

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...

At a very young age, JR imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words...

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

EN 's aristocratic lineage brought her into contact with many notable government and royal figures. As a young girl, she often visited the fifteenth-century Château de Breteuil, not far from Paris, home of her...

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...

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

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...

On her trip to the United States, AM met the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson , and the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and his wife Evelyn Wade .

GM knew the poets Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Swinburne —he sometimes stayed with them while in London. He also knew Emma Caroline Wood , Lucie Duff Gordon , Leslie Stephen , Anne Thackeray Ritchie

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...

Again this novel could hardly be more different from its predecessor. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson 's Songs of Travel heads it, about the salt-encrusted legacy of seafaring ancestors on the shores of Fife...

Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it...

HM later wrote of her earliest memory. Her early world, she said, was synaesthesic. As a child she was constantly reading and always enacting some fictional role. Anyone who hesitates near me...

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 .

EL 's ancestors were Scottish; they hailed from Midlothian. They claimed kinship with David Balfour, the hero of Robert Louis Stevenson 's Kidnapped, and Sir John Harington , the Elizabethan inventor of the water closet.