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 ...

I’m talking about the dual portrait John Singer Sargent painted in 1885 of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson. Louis, whose first novel, Treasure Island, had been published two years earlier ...

Camille Peri’s engrossing A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson recounts in some detail the very unromantic odyssey that led Fanny to her meeting with Louis.

A WILDER SHORE: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson, by Camille Peri A hundred and thirty years after his death, just a few of Robert Louis Stevenson’s books are still ...

Robert Louis Stevenson is the creator of Kidnapped - the new CBBC drama - as well as the classics The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Treasure Island. Now a new BBC drama-documentary ...