As a child, according to author Claire Harmon, Robert Louis Stevenson “liked to be attended to as much as possible, especially by women.” Harmon herself attends to him very well in this new biography, ...

As a child, according to Claire Harmon, Robert Louis Stevenson “liked to be attended to as much as possible, especially by women.” Harmon herself attends to him very well in this new biography, ...

With his tall, thin body and his long arms and legs, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) looked more like a bag of bones than a world-famous Scottish author. It was his eyes, though, which suggested ...

If Robert Louis Stevenson was unhappy with the direction one of his books was headed, the impassioned Scotsman had a habit of tossing it into the nearest fire. This is precisely what happened with the ...

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Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their ...

The major novels of Robert Louis Stevenson contain few female characters—in “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” the sole adult feminine presence is a house maid—but there is no doubt about the ...

CHAPTERS from a controversial book by Robert Louis Stevenson, with the paragraphs originally censored reinstated, will be distributed free in Edinburgh next month to mark the anniversary of his ...

A brief, long-lost essay by “Treasure Island” author Robert Louis Stevenson will be published on Friday, the Associated Press reports. The essay will appear in the Strand magazine, a mystery fiction ...

I am sorry to say I haven’t read anything by Robert Louis Stevenson (RLS to scholars, Louis to his friends), but I’ve come close by reading Brian Doyle’s The Adventures of John Carson in Several ...

In her engrossing book “A Wilder Shore,” Camille Peri tells the story of R.L.S. and his American wife, Fanny Van de Grift. By Brooke Allen Edinburgh calls to readers, its pearl-grey skies urging them ...