Fanny Stevenson
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Frances Matilda Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson was an American magazine writer. She became a supporter and later the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, and the mother of Isobel Osbourne, Samuel Lloyd Os
Portrait of Fanny Stevenson. Bournemouth, 1885
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1885
Isobel Osbourne
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Isobel "Belle" Osbourne Strong Field was a writer and the daughter of Fanny Stevenson and sister of Lloyd Osbourne. Through her mother's second marriage, she was a stepdaughter of Robert Louis Stevens
Fanny Stevenson
…March 1840 – 18 February 1914) was an American magazine writer. She became a supporter and later the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, and the mother of Isobel Osbourne, Samuel Lloyd Osbourne, and Hervey Stewart Osbourne. Fanny Vandegrift was born in Indianapolis, the daughter of builder Jacob Vandegrift and homemaker…
Osborne c. 1898
Allen Herbert’s House, 1896 watercolor painting by Isobel Osbourne, Honolulu Museum of Art
Isobel Osbourne designed a royal naval ensign similar to this for the Kaimiloa, the flagship of the Royal Hawaiian Navy.