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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).
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culture · Scottish novelist and poet (1850–1894) · poet · essayist · novelist · short story writer · children's writer · writer · songwriter · journalist · playwright · also Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Luis Stivensoni, Shih-ti-wen-sheng, Stivenson, Robert Loui Sitivensin, Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Born 13 November 1850 · Died 3 December 1894 · Q1512
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I’ve sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out, knives going, and what not. Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o
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2026· 9 entries
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The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Robert Louis Stevenson, 'That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much' offers timeless lessons on happiness, positive mindset ...
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“s original manuscripts are missing. The Edinburgh-born writer is best known as the author of Kidnapped, Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Many of Stevenson”
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“I’ve sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out, knives going, and what not. Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o”
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“but how he shines beside the politician!”
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“my spirit got up again in a divine frenzy, and has since kicked and spurred my vile body forward with great emphasis and success.”
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“to have just damned the happiness of (probably) the only two people who care a damn about you in the world.”
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“I must suppose, indeed, that he was fond of preaching sermons, and so am I, though I never heard it maintained that either of us loved to hear them.”
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2025· 1 entry
The Washington Post: The short, daring life of ‘Treasure Island’ author Robert Louis Stevenson
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2024· 4 entries
New York Post: The romantic life of Robert Louis Stevenson
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The New Criterion: The short happy life of Robert Louis Stevenson
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There was controversy about the San Francisco statue
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It was announced that a Jekyll and Hyde–themed sculpture would be built near where Skerryvore once stood
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2023· 6 entries
The Atlantic: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Forbes: Montblanc Writers Edition Pens Are A Tribute To Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Guardian: Jekyll and Hyde review – Shakespearean style shows another side to Stevenson thriller
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The Guardian: Kidnapped review – tantalising glimpses of Robert Louis Stevenson’s wife
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The Guardian: Kidnapped review – razzle-dazzling Robert Louis Stevenson
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Yahoo: Did you know Robert Louis Stevenson once lived in Monterey? A museum there can't be missed
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2022· 2 entries
The Guardian: Jekyll and Hyde review – Stevenson’s shocker rewired as a riveting solo
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insider.si.edu: Robert Louis Stevenson
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2021· 1 entry
The Washington Post: Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ is not just an adventure tale, it’s a timely novel about politics and dissent
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2020· 2 entries
The Guardian: 'Lost' letters reveal JM Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson's mutual affection
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The Guardian: Poem of the week: Bright is the Ring of Words by Robert Louis Stevenson
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2018· 1 entry
Was ranked just behind Charles Dickens as the 26th-most-translated author in the world
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2013· 2 entries
A statue of Stevenson as a child with his dog was unveiled by the author Ian Rankin outside Colinton Parish Church
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Released album “Die Schatzinsel”.
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2000· 1 entry
Stevenson might have suffered from hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler-Rendu-Weber Syndrome)
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1998· 1 entry
“The Oxford Book of Essays ed. by John Gross (New York: Oxford, 1998) [Title is Latin for "triple brass," used by Horace]”
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1996· 2 entries
“in Robert Louis Stevenson, Lo strano caso del dottor Jekyll e del signor Hyde, Giunti, Firenze, 1996. ISBN 88-09-20915-X”
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I was talking to a friend the other day who said he'd never met a child who liked reading Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”.
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1994· 2 entries
To mark the 100th anniversary of Stevenson's death, the Royal Bank of Scotland issued a series of commemorative £1 notes which featured a quill pen and Stevenson's signature on the obverse, and Stevenson's face on the re
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“la Repubblica, 30 novembre 1994.”
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1993· 1 entry
“As cited in The Harper Book of Quotations, Revised Edition (1993), Ed. R. Fitzhenry, HarperCollins, p. 498 : ISBN 0062732137, 9780062732132”
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1969· 1 entry
The museum houses such treasures as his childhood rocking chair, writing desk, toy soldiers and personal writings among many other items
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1966· 1 entry
Starring John Mills, Ralph Richardson and Michael Caine
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1957· 2 entries
As a memorial to Stevenson, on the site of his Westbourne house, "Skerryvore", which he occupied from 1885 to 1887
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As a television series episode of Maverick starring James Garner and Jack Kelly, with full credit to Stevenson and Osbourne
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1952· 1 entry
And still exists as a college preparatory boarding school
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1919· 3 entries
“Prince Otto, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).”
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“To Will H. Low, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).”
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“The Land of Counterpane, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).”
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1911· 2 entries
“Lay Morals" Ch. 4, in Lay Morals and Other Essays (1911).”
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By Chatto & Windus) – the unrevised notes for a projected treatise on ethics, drafted at Edinburgh in the spring of 1879
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1904· 1 entry
Is mounted in the Moray Aisle of St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh
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1896· 1 entry
“The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson : In the South Seas. A foot-note to history - Página 96, de Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - Publicado por Scribner's, 1896, CHAPTER XI LONG-PIG — A CANNIBAL HIGH PLACE”
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1895· 2 entries
“Reflections and Remarks on Human Life", VI: Right and Wrong, published in Works: Letters and Miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson -- Sketches, Criticisms, Etc. (1895), p. 628.”
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“The works of Robert Louis Stevenson" - Vol. 2, Página 166, de Robert Louis Stevenson - printed by T. and A. Constable for Longmans Green and Co., 1895”
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1894· 22 entries
Died 1894-12-03.
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“Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.”
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“Works: Volume 1 - página 209, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Sidney Colvin - Printed by T. and A. Constable for Longmans Green and Co., 1894”
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“A atividade intensa, tanto na escola quanto na faculdade, na igreja ou no mercado, é um sinal de escassa vitalidade.”
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“Keep your fears to yourself but share your courag e with others.”
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Just months before his death, he addressed the island chiefs:There is but one way to defend Samoa
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“Dejad que hable cualquiera cierto tiempo, y veréis como consigue prosélitos.”
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“Ci sono due ragioni che devono guidare le scelte importanti della vita: la prima è una predisposizione innata in chi compie una scelta; la seconda è che l'attività scelta sia di qualche utilità.”
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“Casamento é uma longa conversa entremeada de disputa.”
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“To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
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“El encanto es la virtud sin la cual todas las demás son inútiles.”
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“Essere ciò che siamo, diventare ciò che siamo capaci di diventare, questo è il solo fine della vita.”
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“Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes”
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“El precio que tenemos que pagar por el dinero se paga en libertad.”
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“Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
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“La dificultad de la literatura no es escribir, sino escribir lo que quieres decir».[The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean].”
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“Voir le recueil de citations : L'Île au trésor”
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“Il nostro compito in questo mondo non è avere successo, ma continuare a fallire, di buon umore.”
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“Não há nada que desperte mais a nossa repugnância que o canibalismo [...], no entanto causamos a mesma impressão nos budistas e nos vegetarianos, porque nos alimentamos de bebês, apesar de não serem os nossos.”
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“La política es, tal vez, la única profesión para la que no es necesaria ninguna preparación.”
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“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, [...] And yet we ourselves make much the same appearance in the eyes of the Buddhist and the vegetarian. We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions, and organs with ourselves; we feed on babes, though not our own;”
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“Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.”
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1893· 1 entry
With Catriona, the sequel to Kidnapped), Stevenson is said to have spent his "entire writing life" inciting against tyranny, empire and corruption
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1891· 1 entry
(and then in book form as In the South Seas in 1896)
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1890· 1 entry
Settled in Samoa, where, alarmed at increasing European and American influence in the South Sea islands, his writing turned from romance and adventure fiction toward a darker realism
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1889· 3 entries
With Lloyd on the trading schooner Equator, visiting Butaritari, Mariki, Apaiang and Abemama in the Gilbert Islands
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Stevenson visited the leper colony on Molokaʻi, Hawaii, where leper girls were cared for by Sisters of Saint Francis, led by Mother Marianne Cope
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“The Wrong Box, ch. 7 (1889).”
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1888· 3 entries
That took him to Samoa, Scribner's Magazine published "Pulvis et Umbra" (the title a line from Horace: "We are but dust and shadow")
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“Letter to a Young Gentleman Scribner's Magazine (September 1888).”
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And he is often considered to be the inspiration for Long John Silver in Treasure Island
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1887· 4 entries
“Ticonderoga: A Legend of the West Highlands”
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“Memories and Portraits, ch. IV. A College Magazine (1887).”
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“A Gossip on a Novel of Dumas's”
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Leaving his 36-year-old son feeling free to follow the advice of his physician to try a complete change of climate
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1884· 2 entries
“A Penny Plain and Two-pence Coloured”
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Settling in Westbourne in the English south-coast town of Bournemouth
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1883· 1 entry
Stephenson wrote privately of the chief propagandist and organiser of the Fenian dynamite campaign in England, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa: "If that is the new world
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1882· 2 entries
“Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882).”
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“A Gossip on Romance, printed in Longman's Magazine (November 1882).”
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1881· 1 entry
“Letter to Sidney Colvin, 2 August 1881. Quoted in Terrorism and Literature Chapter 12 - “Parliament Is Burning” by Deaglán Ó Donghaile ISBN 9781316987292”
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1880· 1 entry
“a mere complication of cough and bones, much fitter for an emblem of mortality than a bridegroom.”
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1878· 3 entries
“Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1878).”
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“La Fère of Cursed Memory', 15th vignette of An Inland Voyage (1878), in Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson, Stevenson, e-artnow (2015)”
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“An Inland Voyage (1878), Ch. III, "The Royal Sport Nautique.”
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1877· 1 entry
Stevenson offered "An Apology for Idlers"
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1875· 1 entry
Had taken her children to France, where she and Isobel studied art
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1869· 1 entry
And spent three weeks on the island of Erraid in 1870
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1868· 1 entry
This took him to Anstruther and for a stay of six weeks in Wick, Caithness, where his family was building a sea wall and had previously built a lighthouse
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1867· 1 entry
Stevenson's family took a lease on Swanston Cottage, in the village of Swanston at the foot of the Pentland Hills, for use as a summer holiday home
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1850· 1 entry
Born 1850-11-13.
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