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 ...

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.

In Edinburgh, where the father, according to the memorial quoted above, “ had a circle of his own,” and was widely known and beloved, Robert Louis Stevenson was born, the books of reference ...

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 ...

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 was so little known that most people called him Bob. He would not be the Robert Louis Stevenson of writing fame until his bestseller, "Treasure Island," was published in ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A new exhibition examining the later years of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life and his Pacific legacy is to open in Edinburgh this week.

Stevenson was smitten. “For Louis, Fanny was the woman of a bad boy’s dreams – a fellow outsider, rebel, and adventurer, with whom he could truly be himself.” But Stevenson had been ill ...