Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, ... The romantic life of Robert Louis Stevenson By . Gavin Newsham. Published Aug. 17, 2024, 5:00 p.m. ET ...

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 ...

“Myself & the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson” by Claire Harmon HarperCollins, 503 pp., $29.95 ...

John Singer Sargent, "Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife," 1885, oil on canvas, 20 1/4 x 24 1/4 in. (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2005.3. Photography by Dwight ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robert Louis Stevenson A review by Bradford Torrey Stevenson was one of the happy few: he knew his life's business from childlhood.He was to write books. Happier still, and one of even a smaller ...

Stevenson was a man whose wild, outrageous, tragic, romantic and adventurous life often reflected his art. Writer at Large Neil Mackay explores the drama of being Robert Louis Stevenson ACT ONE ...

The Stevenson family in Samoa, ca. 1891. Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny, are seated at back. Photo: J. Davis/National Portrait Gallery, London ...

Camille Peri's lively and substantive dual biography of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson offers a glimpse of their unconventional marriage — and an inspiration for living fearlessly.

The Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in St. Helena will present an evening with Camille Peri, author of the new book "A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson," at 5: ...