robert louis stevenson

     

For the sake of convenience & brevity, this 19th c. author signed his early essays "RLS"

Trivia about robert louis stevenson

  • "Virginibus Puerisque" is a whimsical collection of essays by this author of "Kidnapped"
  • This "Treasure Island" author's "Silverado Squatters" was based on the journal he kept on his honeymoon
  • He said "little people" in his dreams inspired stories like "Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde"
  • Vailima, this author's mansion in western Samoa, has now been "Kidnapped" by the country's head of state
  • While living in Davos, Switzerland, far from an ocean, he wrapped up "Treasure Island"
  • This "Kidnapped" author wrote about a real journey he made in "Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes"
  • He dedicated his 1885 "A Child's Garden of Verses" to Alison Cunningham, his childhood nurse
  • The Samoans gave him the title "Tusitala", or "Teller of Tales"
  • A St. Helena, California museum displays the toy soldiers he wrote about in "A Child's Garden of Verses"
  • "A Child's Garden of Verses" grew out of the fertile imagination of this "Treasure Island" author
  • In 1893 this author published "Catriona", a sequel to "Kidnapped"
  • This Scottish novelist is buried at the summit of Mt. Vaea on Upolu, an island of Western Samoa
  • This author was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1850 & died in Samoa in 1894
  • Born in Scotland, this author spent time in the United States & the South Seas
  • Around 1889 this Scotsman purchased an estate in Samoa, which he called Valima, or "Five Streams"
  • On the 1880s "The Osbournes", this author amused stepson Lloyd Osbourne with tales of a boy on the high seas
  • He planted 64 poems in his "Child's Garden of Verses"
  • A specialist in action-packed young people's novels, in 1885 he put out the quiet "A Child's Garden of Verses"
  • The Samoans built a road to this novelist's house called “The Road of the Loving Heart”
  • Shortly after writing "Catriona", a sequel to "Kidnapped", he died on the island of Samoa
  • I can't always see "My Shadow" but I can always read about it in this Scotsman's "A Child's Garden of Verses"
  • This Scottish author of "Kidnapped" wrote, "The cruelest lies are often told in silence"
  • This Scotsman's 19th century novel "The Master Of Ballantrae" is subtitled "A Winter's Tale"
  • This author spent the last years of his life at Vailima, his mansion & plantation in Samoa
  • He followed up "Treasure Island" with a volume of children's poetry, "A Child's Garden of Verses"
  • When he died in Samoa in 1894, he left behind what many consider his masterpiece, "Weir of Hermiston"
  • An author, born Nov. 13, 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland; died Dec. 3, 1894 in Samoa
  • Author who was born in Edinburgh in 1850 & died in Samoa in 1894
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Oahu, Hawaii) When this Scottish-born author took refuge in Samoa, he was known as Tusitala, or "story-teller"
  • He began "The Master of Ballantrae" in 1887 before sailing off with his family to the South Seas
  • Graham Greene was born 10 years after this distant writer relative of his died in the South Seas
  • After moving to the South Seas, he wrote the 1892 South Seas-set adventure story "The Beach of Falesa"