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Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island , Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses .
Robert Louis Stevenson in 1885. Stevenson had long been intrigued by the idea of how human personalities can reflect the interplay of good and evil.While still a teenager, he developed a script for a play about William Brodie, which he later reworked with the help of W. E. Henley and which was produced for the first time in 1882. [3]
The ashes of his wife Fanny Stevenson, who died in California in 1914, were taken back by her daughter to Samoa in 1915 and buried beside her husband. [5] The bronze plaque for Fanny bears her Samoan name 'Aolele' (Flying Cloud in Samoan). Stevenson's estate and colonial home, Villa Vailima, is now the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in his
Portrait of Fanny Stevenson. Bournemouth, 1885. After Hervey's death, Fanny moved to Grez-sur-Loing, where she met and befriended Robert Louis Stevenson. [5] A 1916 recollection of her by L. Birge Harrison (published in the Centenary Magazine) recalls, "That she was a woman of intellectual attainments is proved by the fact that she was already a magazine writer of recognized ability, and that ...
Long John Silver is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1883 novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. The most colourful and complex character in the book, he continues to appear in popular culture. His missing leg and parrot, in particular, have greatly contributed to the image of the pirate in popular culture.
A seminal 1971 nonbinary adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s lunatic tale of the Id unbound: Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde. (Credit: LMPC via Getty Images)
Dr. Henry Jekyll and his alter ego, Mr. Edward Hyde, is the central character of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.In the story, he is a good friend of main protagonist Gabriel John Utterson.
Stevenson died Monday after a battle with colon cancer. She was 84. “It is a tremendous loss,” said her husband Tom Stevenson, “for our wildlife and everyone who knew her.”