Horspool, David. “Knockabout on Treasure Island”. Times Literary Supplement.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Standard Name: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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
. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Philip Larkin | Probably Larkin's most widely-known poem appeared in this volume. Combining the colloquial with the lapidary, it presents a shockingly terse summary statement about the handing on of emotional pain in families: They fuck you up... |
Friends, Associates | Rudyard Kipling | Kipling's fame brought easy acquaintances with celebrities. In November 1894, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
stayed as a guest in his American home. On the death in Samoa of Robert Louis Stevenson
(whom he had never... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | Charles Jenkin's family was Welsh but had lived in England for generations and was now settled at Northiam in Sussex. His father had died eight months before, leaving nothing but debt behind him. Charles... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | Fleeming (pronounced Fleming) Jenkin had great abilities that were evident from an early age. His biographer, Robert Louis Stevenson
, rates his mother's influence over him very high, and admires though he cannot wholly approve... |
Health | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | The following summer she recovered from this frenzy and set to work, although now both deaf and aphasic, trying to repair her loss of language by the use of dictionaries. A third stroke, however, scattered... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Violet Hunt | Acquainted with Andrew Lang
through her mother
's social circle, VH
shaped her own poetry under his influence. Partly because of Lang's connections, her romantic poem The Death of the Shameful Knight was published in... |
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 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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Graham Greene | Marion Greene was also, on her mother's side, a first cousin once removed of Robert Louis Stevenson
. Sherry, Norman. The Life of Graham Greene: Volume I. Random House. 36, 38 |
Textual Production | Clotilde Graves | 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. 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. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Gardam | As the title suggests, Polly Flint's chief passion is for Daniel Defoe
, to whose writing she brings a passionate, intelligent naiveté and great perception. She fiercely contradicts those who suppose that Defoe lacked imagination... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Forster | This examines the lives of Mary Livingstone (mid-Victorian daughter of a missionary in Africa, who married the more famous missionary David Livingstone
, a colleague and protégé of her father), Fanny Stevenson (late Victorian... |
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 |
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