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 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 ...

Thank goodness for Parmesan cheese. Secreted in a silver snuff box, it helped save the lives of Dr. David Livesey and his companions during a battle with pirate Long John Silver in Robert Louis ...

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 ...

Camille Peri's lively and substantive dual biography of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson offers a glimpse of their unconventional marriage — and an inspiration for living fearlessly.

Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny, are seated at back. Photo: J. Davis/National Portrait Gallery, London. The major novels of Robert Louis Stevenson contain few female characters—in ...

Robert Louis Stevenson. By Sophia Kirk. December 1887 Issue. Share. Save. A DOZEN years ago, more or less, and somewhere in that zone of forest landscape which lies near to the heart of Nature and ...

A new exhibition examining the later years of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life and his Pacific legacy is to open in Edinburgh this week. This free exhibition, which will open ahead of Robert Louis ...