Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped and for the poet
Stevenson in 1893
Daguerreotype portrait of Stevenson as a child
Stevenson's childhood home in Heriot Row
Stevenson at age 7
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
Robert Louis Stevenson
…Barrie to visit him in Samoa, but the two never met. The canoe voyage with Simpson brought Stevenson to Grez-sur-Loing in September 1876, where he met Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne (1840–1914), born in Indianapolis in the United States. She had married at age 17 and moved to Nevada to rejoin her husband Samuel after his participation…
Portrait of Fanny Stevenson. Bournemouth, 1885
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1885