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	Robert Louis Stevenson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stevenson was born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson in Edinburgh, Scotland.
		Stevenson's novels of adventure, romance, and horror are of considerable psychological depth and have continued in popularity long after his death, both as books and as films.
		Stevenson died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Vailima in Samoa, aged 44.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson (1134 words)

	Bellrock.org.uk : Stevensons : Robert Stevenson 1772-1850
		Robert Stevenson was born in Glasgow in 1772, the son of Alan Stevenson (a merchant in that city) and Jean Lillie.
		Robert worked hard to qualify himself as an civil engineer, and even as early as 1793 he was known to have been entrusted, at least in part, to the building of the lighthouse on Little Cumbrae on the Frith of Clyde.
		Robert died in 1850 (his wife had died in 1846) and both lie in New Calton Cemetery in Edinburgh with their family, many of whom died in infancy.
	www.bellrock.org.uk /stevensons/stevenson_robert.htm (314 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson Biography
		Robert Louis Stevenson was born to Thomas and Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson in Edinburgh on 13 November 1850.
		Stevenson maintained that his art, his life, and his mode of creation were all in some part derivative of the highly exaggerated and romantic world that he had inherited from Skelt's toy.
		Stevenson detailed his three cruises and adventures in the letters he wrote to his friends, exulting in his newfound health, relating incidents of life on the open sea, and capturing the flavor of life lived away from Western civilization.
	people.brandeis.edu /~teuber/stevensonbio.html (6414 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson - Books and Biography
		Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh.
		Stevenson changed to law and in 1875 he was called to the Scottish bar.
		Stevenson died of a brain haemorrhage on December 3, 1894, in Vailima.
	www.readprint.com /author-76/Robert-Louis-Stevenson (1674 words)

	BBC - History - Robert Stevenson (1772 - 1850) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Robert Stevenson's father-in-law and step-father were the same person, one Thomas Smith, a tinsmith who invented and manufactured lamp-light reflectors.
		Robert Stevenson's mother, Jane, moved to Edinburgh in 1774, after his father died while working for a Glasgow firm on the Caribbean island of St Kitts.
		In 1822, under Robert's direction, the iron crane used on the Bell Rock lighthouse lifted a statue, twice as large-as-life, of the late Viscount Melville, on to the top of a slender 41-metre-high column.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/stevenson_robert.shtml (463 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson
		Robert, however, had much more of a romantic nature at heart and while obstentiously working for a science degree, he spent much of his time studying French Literature, Scottish history, and the works of Darwin and Spencer.
		Robert would study for the Bar and if is literary ambitions failed, he would have a respectable profession to fall back on.
		Eventually, Stevenson was so enchanted by the life of the South Seas that in December 1889 he bought an estate in Apia, Samoa, convinced that he could never endure the harsh winters of his native Scotland or England.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_robert_stevenson.html (828 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson
		Still, for Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife Fanny, who in 1889 first saw these islands, it was the traditional way of life, coupled with its verdant beauty that first caught their attention.
		Stevenson met his mother in Australia, but the change of climate caused him to become very ill. Fortunately, help was at hand and it was his mother who nursed him until he was well enough to sail back to Samoa, where at Vailima he recovered rapidly.
		As for Stevenson and Fanny, they were reasonably happy, but because Fanny was several years older it was said that he saw in her more of a mother than a wife.
	www.literarytraveler.com /robertlouisstevenson/stevenson.htm (1456 words)

	Silverado Museum in St. Helena, CA devoted to Robert Louis Stevenson
		Stevenson was called to the Scottish bar in 1875 but did not practice since he had decided to become a writer.
		Robert Louis Stevenson was buried at the summit of Mount Vaea overlooking the sea.
		Stevenson had suffered from fibronous bronchitis since childhood, and the newly married couple were seeking a location from the summer fogs of San Francisco which were extremely damaging to Stevenson's sensitive lungs.
	www.silveradomuseum.org (1896 words)

	MSN Encarta - Robert Louis Stevenson
		Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet, who contributed several classic works to children's literature.
		Stevenson suffered from tuberculosis and often traveled in search of warm climates to ease his illness.
		Stevenson's popularity is based primarily on the exciting subject matter of his adventure novels and fantasy stories.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761567727 (525 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson
		Characteristic for Stevenson's novels is skillful use of horror and supernatural elements.
		Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh as the son of Thomas Stevenson, a prosperous joint-engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses.
		Stevenson died of a brain haemorrhage on December 3, 1894, in Vailima, Samoa.
	www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.30 (1014 words)

	SLAINTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Robert Louis Stevenson was at the height of his powers when he died suddenly in Samoa in 1894.
		Stevenson was absorbed by Scottish history and Scottish character, and this fascination is an essential aspect of his writing.
		Stevenson was one of the greatest letter writers in the English language, and the complete collection is now available in eight volumes, edited by Bradford A. Booth and Ernest Mehew, 1994-5.
	www.slainte.org.uk /scotauth/stevedsw.htm (867 words)

	Northern Lighthouse Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Robert Stevenson was born on 8 June 1772 in Glasgow and died on 12 July 1850.
		The first mention of Robert Stevenson in connection with the Northern Lighthouse Board was when Thomas Smith, the Engineer, in 1794, entrusted Robert Stevenson with the Superintendence of the erection of Pentland Skerries Lighthouse.
		Robert Stevenson's fame was not confined only to Lighthouses, as among other things he was responsible for the design of London and Regent Roads in Edinburgh, the Hutcheson Bridge in Glasgow, railway lines etc, etc.
	www.nlb.org.uk /historical/stevenson.htm (299 words)

	BBC - History - Robert Louis Stevenson dies, 1894 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Robert Louis Stevenson published 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'.
		Born in Edinburgh, in 1850, Stevenson was the son of a famous civil engineer.
		Stevenson spent much of his adult life travelling abroad before settling in Samoa where died of a brain haemorrhage in 1894, when writing 'Weir of Hermiston'.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/scotland/rl_stevenson.shtml (110 words)

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		Stevenson's mark on California is matched by the region's mark on him, for in coming to California, his life was changed forever.
		Stevenson's coming to California secured for him a lifelong nurse, secretary, editor, traveling companion and Recording Angel, as he puts it in his essay "On Marriage." In Lapierre's biography, she carefully delineates the mutual needs of the couple united in what they themselves called the Romance of Destiny.
		As a young man and as a famous author, Robert Louis Stevenson had the good fortune to draw people to him whom he made, in the words of one biographer, "Happier By His Presence." His marriage to a Californian, as difficult and unorthodox as it was, was the means by which he achieved his dreams.
	www.cateweb.org /CA_Authors/stevenson.html (1294 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: STEVENSON, COKE ROBERT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Coke Robert Stevenson, governor of Texas, named for Methodist bishop Thomas Coke, was born on March 20, 1888, to Robert Milton and Virginia (Hurley) Stevenson in a log cabin in Mason County, Texas.
		Stevenson's record in the legislature showed a concern for soil conservation laws, expansion of and a permanent financing policy for the state highway system (see HIGHWAY DEVELOPMENT), an enlarged building program for the University of Texas, and increases in teachers' salaries.
		Stevenson's plea to the United States Senate was refused, and he took the defeat with bitterness.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/fst48.html (896 words)

	John Singer Sargent's Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife
		Robert Louis Stevenson is pacing and his wife Fanny is seated in background to the right of the door.
		She was married with two children when Stevenson met her, but he pursued her across the Atlantic, travelling steerage on the crossing and ending with a gruelling overland trek to California.
		Stevenson, a Scottish novelist and poet famed for his adventure tales Treasure Island and Kidnapped among other writings, was often unwell and retired to Skerryvore on regular occasions to recover from his illnesses.
	www.jssgallery.org /Paintings/Robert_Louis_Stevenson_and_His_Wife.htm (2620 words)

	Oceania - The Final Voyages of Robert Louis Stevenson
		It was here that Stevenson formed a friendship with Princess Moi who called upon the Stevensons the day after their arrival, having heard of a white man being ill. She herself made Robert Louis Stevenson a salad of raw fish, which was the first thing he was able to eat.
		It was during this time that Stevenson and his wife gave a great feast to the natives in return for the wonderful hospitality they had received.
		Stevenson became ill with pneumonia and his illness and recovery lengthened the stay in Honolulu after the completion of his business there and it was not until November that he and Mrs.
	www.janesoceania.com /oceania_rls (1577 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson on stamp of Samoa 1935
		Here Stevenson spent the final years of his life, and on Vaea Hill, shown in the background, up a steep forest track cut specially by the Samoans — "The Road of Loving Hearts" — his body was carried to its last resting-place.
		Stevenson's home is now the official residence of the Administrator, and the engraving pictures it from an angle showing the right wing and central portion of the building, which were built in Stevenson's time.
		On the summit of Vaea Hill, surrounded by dense forest, is the tomb of Robert Louis Stevenson, which is shown in the centre of this denomination.
	www.trussel.com /rls/rlssam3.htm (1316 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson
		The Stevenson House was the childhood home of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Jekyll and Hyde, from the age of six until he finally left in 1880.
		Prevented by ill-health from going much to ordinary schools, the Stevenson House was the centre of his world and his mind was nourished by ceaseless reading as well as the stories told by Cummie of ghosts, ghouls, Scottish history, and the Bible.
		Edinburgh and the Stevenson House were still his home, and the centre of his imagination, but he began to travel more and further.
	www.stevenson-house.co.uk /rls.htm (996 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson - Biography and Works
		Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish essayist, poet and author of fiction and travel books, known especially for his novels of adventure.
		Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850 in Edinburgh as the son of Thomas Stevenson, joint-engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses.
		Stevenson died on December 3, 1894, in Vailima, Samoa.
	www.online-literature.com /stevenson (373 words)

	Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		There Stevenson gained the affection of the natives, who knew him as Tusitala (teller of tales).
		Among Stevenson’s other published works are Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879); The Merry Men (1887); The Black Arrow (1888), a novel; A Footnote to History (1893), a defense of Father Damien; and a novel, The Weir of Hermiston (1896), which, although uncompleted, contains some of Stevenson’s finest writing.
		Stevenson’s reputation suffered severely after his death—he was considered an overly mannered writer of children’s stories.
	www.bartleby.com /65/st/StvnsnR.html (484 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson Collection at Bartleby.com
		At an early age he had begun to write, and gradually he devoted himself to literature.… His first popular books were Treasure Island (1883), a swashbuckling adventure story of a search for Captain Kidd’s buried treasure, and the fantasy Prince Otto (1885).
		A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods, with Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Alexander Harvey.
		Two of Stevenson’s best-loved verse collections comprising 121 poems, some in Scots.
	www.bartleby.com /people/StvnsnR.html (179 words)

	Blommers Home Page
		Stevenson was born into a strict Presbyterian family, his father, an engineer, wanted Robert Louis to follow him into the family profession.
		Stevenson's was preoccupied with predestination, and the forces of evil, and explores these issues in The Master of Ballantrae (1889), and Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
		As a frequent visitor to the Hawes Inn, Robert Louis Stevenson enjoyed afternoon walk's and occasional canoeing, it is not surprising the he was attracted by its history and atmosphere.
	www.blommers.org /RLS.html (704 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Observer review: Robert Louis Stevenson by Claire Harman
		Her desire to claim Stevenson for English literature is suggested by an egregious remark: 'The early editions of Stevenson's stories in Scots did not have accompanying glossaries, implying a wider knowledge of the dialect than anyone would assume today.' This is nonsense and patronising: Irvine Welsh isn't published with a glossary.
		Stevenson's Oedipal struggle with his father, a great man in his way, is treated here, but not the difficulties Stevenson had with his father in art.
		Similarly, Stevenson's Jacobite novel, The Master of Ballantrae, depicts a situation in which life/death and home/exile are settled by flipping a coin, a dramatisation of an underlying historical truth.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/biography/0,6121,1396312,00.html (852 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Robert Louis Stevenson, from a woodcut in The Bookman (1913)
		The University of South Carolina marked the centenary of Robert Louis Stevenson's death in 1894 with a special exhibition illustrating his life and writing career.
		Ross Roy Collection of Scottish Literature, the original exhibit included most of Stevenson's first editions, the early magazine publication of Treasure Island and other adventure stories, and a full range of his travel writings, sensation fiction such as the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
	www.sc.edu /library/spcoll/britlit/rls/rls.html (211 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson
		Stevenson attended the University of Edinburgh and was admitted to the bar in 1875.
		Stevenson's works earned him great popularity because of his clear and careful style, and his extraordinary power as a storyteller.
		Stevenson died of apoplexy in 1894, when he was just 44 years old.
	www.poetryloverspage.com /poets/stevenson/stevenson_biography.html (346 words)

	ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
		The Robert (a name he was seldom known by in his youth) was from the Stevenson side.
		From them Robert Louis Stevenson inherited that tenacity of purpose which made him write and rewrite chapters till his phrases concisely expressed his meaning, and toilsomely labour till his work was perfected.
		Stevenson writes of “that wise youth, my uncle,” who was a grey–bearded doctor when his nephew thus referred to him.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /s/stevenson/robert_louis/s848zs/part1.html (1691 words)

	The Literary Gothic \| Robert Louis Stevenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Stevenson's short life adds to the mystique and aura of his work, which is an impressive collection of outstanding achievements in various popular literary forms.
		Robert Louis Stevenson: a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial [1905]
		Stevenson's take on the "Resurrection Man" phenomenon of the mid- to late-Victorian period.
	www.litgothic.com /Authors/stevenson.html (729 words)

	Robert Stevenson -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Robert Louis Stevenson Museum (1990) and the Nelson Memorial Public Library (1959) are located in Apia.
		The Apia Observatory, the legislative council chambers, and a broadcasting station are on the Mulinuu Peninsula, a promontory dividing Apia Harbour from Vaiusu Bay.
		Stevenson was born Nov. 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9069665 (774 words)

	Robert L. Stevenson at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources
		Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson spent much of his life travelling to find a location that would ease his chronic bronchial illness, and, in doing so, was inspired to write about places and characters that have become legendary in children's literature.
		Stevenson's works of fiction made him a celebrity throughout the Western world, and these stories have almost all been in publication since.
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	www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Stevenson (578 words)

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