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Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island , Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses .
The ashes of his wife Fanny Stevenson, who died in California in 1914, were taken back by her daughter to Samoa in 1915 and buried beside her husband. [5] The bronze plaque for Fanny bears her Samoan name 'Aolele' (Flying Cloud in Samoan). Stevenson's estate and colonial home, Villa Vailima, is now the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in his
Home from the Hill is a phrase from Robert Louis Stevenson's poem (and epitaph), Requiem, the last two lines of which read: Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. As a title, it may refer to: Home from the Hill, the first novel by author William Humphrey, published in 1958
January 1940. "Requiem" is a short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, a sequel to his science fiction novella "The Man Who Sold the Moon", although it was in fact published several years earlier than that story, in Astounding, January 1940. The story was also performed as a play on October 27, 1955, on the NBC Radio Network program X ...
72000239 [ 1] Added to NRHP. January 7, 1972. The Stevenson House, is a historic two-story Spanish Colonial style building located at 530 Houston Street in Monterey, California. It was a boarding house called the French Hotel, built circa 1836. The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson lived there in 1879, writing and courting his future wife.
The memorial in 2013. Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial. Location in San Francisco. Location. San Francisco, California. Coordinates. 37°47′42″N 122°24′21″W. / 37.79512°N 122.40574°W / 37.79512; -122.40574. The Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial is an outdoor memorial commemorating Robert Louis Stevenson, in Portsmouth Square ...
Stevenson Memorial is a 1903 oil painting by the American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer, intended to commemorate the writer Robert Louis Stevenson.Though Thayer initiated several paintings with the intent of honoring Stevenson, Stevenson Memorial is the only version to survive the artist's revisions.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses. Songs of Travel and Other Verses is an 1896 book of poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson. Originally published by Chatto & Windus, [1] it explores the author's perennial themes of travel and adventure. The work gained a new public and popularity when it was set to music in Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughan Williams .