Robert Louis Stevenson

One reader who loved this book was the young Robert Louis Stevenson .

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...

British Book News announced that this book gives Eleanor Farjeon a permanent place of honour between Stevenson and Walter de la Mare . The Jesuit Father Mangan , who baptised EF into the...

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...

BL 's stage adaptation of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson opened as a Christmas show at the National Theatre .

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.

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,...

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...

They mention the need for new funds and the way they will supplement previous subscriptions. They specify some of the material they have already collected from other authors and publishers to sell on...

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 .

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 ,

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...

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 ...

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.

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...