Stevenson came to California in 1879 in pursuit of Fanny Osbourne, the independently minded American woman, 11 years his senior and already married with two children, whom he had met and fallen in ...

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 Loui… ...

Robert Louis Stevenson State Park, Lake County Highway, Calistoga, Calif.; (707) 942-4575, lat.ms/napaparkstevenson. It’s easy to miss the entrance. Look for a small parking lot on the side of ...

Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Kidnapped” appeared in 1886, the same year as “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and just three years after “Treasure Island.” According to the ...

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 ...

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped appeared in 1886, the same year as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and just three years after Treasure Island.According to The Oxford Companion to ...

The major novels of Robert Louis Stevenson contain few female characters—in “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” the sole feminine presence is a house maid—but there is no doubt about ...