Robert Louis Stevenson

Standard Name: Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Literary responses Eleanor Farjeon
British Book News announced that this book gives Eleanor Farjeon a permanent place of honour between Stevenson and Walter de la Mare .
British Book News. British Council.
(1952): 122
The Jesuit Father Mangan , who baptised EF into the...
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 Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Trollope admired her work alongside that of Rhoda Broughton , though he thought her writing lazy.
qtd. in
Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, 1994, p. various pages.
164
Robert Louis Stevenson dedicated a poem to her, inciting her to further literary biographies after reading A Book...
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...
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, 17 Dec. 2014.
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, 1996.
70 and n1
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,...
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, 11 Dec. 1919, p. 750.
750
They specify some of the material they have already collected from other authors and publishers to sell on...
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 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.
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.
Stern also wrote introductions to texts of works both by Austen and by Stevenson.
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 .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann, 1978.
130
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 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...

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