Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh on the 13 November 1850. His father and grandfather were both successful engineers who built many of the lighthouses that dotted the Scottish coast, whilst his mother came from a family of lawyers and church ministers. A sickly boy whose mother was also often unwell, Stevenson spent much of his childhood with the family nurse, Alison Cunningham. She told him many ghost stories and supernatural tales which seem to resonate throughout Stevenson's later fiction, reappearing in several of his short-stories, such as 'The Body Snatchers', 'The Merry Men', and 'Thrawn Janet'. In 1867, Stevenson enrolled at Edinburgh University to study engineering. The choice of subject was influenced by Stevenson's father, who wished his son to continue the prestigious family tradition. Stevenson however had other ambitions, and even at this early stage, expressed a desire to write. He shortly changed courses and began to study law, but soon gave this up to concentrate on writing professionally, much to the displeasure of his father.
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| 11 | Gothic Elements in 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' | The relationship between scientific discourse and the Victorian Gothic is greatly emphasised when… | Charlotte Barrett |
| 12 | Robert Louis Stevenson | photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson (1870) | |
| 13 | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh on the 13 November 1850. His… | Charlotte Barrett |
| 14 | Ruffus The Dog - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1998) | Ruffus discovers his dark side as he portrays both the kind-hearted Dr. Ruffus and the nefarious Mr… | |
| 15 | Memories and portraits : memories of himself, selections from his notebook. | ||
| 16 | Robert Louis Stevenson : his work and his personality | by Sidney Colvin, Edmund Gosse, Neil Munro [and others] London : Hodder and Stoughton | |
| 17 | Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Publisher: London : Longmans, Green | |
| 18 | Science and Religion | At the beginning of the nineteenth century, William Paley published Natural Theology (1802… | Charlotte Barrett |
| 19 | Spiritualism, Science and Atavism | In the Victorian era, Gothic fiction had ceased to be a dominant literary genre. However, the… | Charlotte Barrett |