British Book News. British Council.
(1952): 122
Robert Louis Stevenson
Standard Name: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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
. |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 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 | 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. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
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