Robert Louis Stevenson. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world.[1] His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov,[2] J.
M. Barrie,[3] and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins. Life[edit] Childhood and youth[edit] Daguerreotype portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson as a young child Stevenson's childhood home in Heriot Row Lewis Balfour and his daughter both had weak chests, so they often needed to stay in warmer climates for their health.
Stevenson's parents were both devout and serious Presbyterians, but the household was not strict in its adherence to Calvinist principles. Robert Louis Stevenson at the age of seven Education[edit] What a damned curse I am to my parents! Robert Louis Stevenson. BBC Two - Writing Scotland - Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson Biography. Robert Louis Stevenson November 13, 1850-December 3, 1894 Nationality: Scottish Birth Date: November 13, 1850 Death Date: December 3, 1894 Genre(s): NOVELS; POETRY Table of Contents: Biographical and Critical Essay"The Philosophy of Umbrellas""On a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses""Crabbed Age and Youth"An Inland VoyageTravels with a Donkey in the CevennesThe Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy HookTreasure Island"The Lantern-Bearers""A Humble Remonstrance"In the South SeasFather Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr.
Jump to Additional DLB Essay(s) on This Author: Victorian Novelists After 1885British Short-Fiction Writers, 1880-1914: The Romantic TraditionBritish Children's Writers, 1880-1914British Travel Writers, 1876-1909 Books The Pentland Rising (Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1866). Collections The Works of R. Letters. RLS in Edinburgh. RLS’s Gothic Edinburgh Stevenson was certainly drawn to the darker elements of Edinburgh’s history. In Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, for example, he writes“So, in the low dens and high-flying garrets of Edinburgh, people may go back upon dark passages in the town's adventures, and chill their marrow with winter's tales about the fire: tales that are singularly apposite and characteristic, not only of the old life, but of the very constitution of built nature in that part, and singularly well qualified to add horror to horror, when the wind pipes around the tall LANDS, and hoots adown arched passages, and the far-spread wilderness of city lamps keeps quavering and flaring in the gusts” (The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Swanston edn, vol i [London: Chatto and Windus, 1911]).
This section aims to highlight some of the more sinister aspects of Edinburgh’s history that inspired Stevenson, as well as to show how some of Stevenson's Gothic still lingers in the popular imagination. Plague. Long John Silver. Browse By Author: S. Mediatype:(texts) -contributor:gutenberg AND (subject:"Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894" OR subject:"Stevenson, R. L. (Robert Louis), 1850-1894" OR subject:"Stevenson, Robert L. (Robert Louis), 1850-1894" OR subject:"Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson: a short biography. STEVENSON, ROBERT LEWIS BALFOUR (1850-1894), British essayist, novelist and poet, was the only child of Thomas Stevenson, civil engineer, and his wife, Margaret Isabella Balfour.
He was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, on the 13th of November 1850. He suffered from infancy from great fragility of health, and nearly died in 1858 of gastric fever, which left much constitutional weakness behind it. From the age of six he showed a disposition to write. He went to school, mainly in Edinburgh, from 1858 to 1867, but his ill-health prevented his learning much, and his teachers, as his mother afterwards said, “liked talking to him better than teaching him.” He often accompanied his father on his official visits to the lighthouses of the Scottish coast and on longer journeys, thus early accustoming himself to travel. He was now labouring, with extreme assiduity, to ground himself in the forms and habits of literary style. His cousin R. R. Robert Louis Stevenson Website - RLS Website. Robert Louis Stevenson, famous people from Edinburgh.