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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Scottish novelist and lyrist (1850–1894)
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Stevenson’s establishes a personal relationship with the reader, and creates a sense of wonder through his brilliant style and his adoption and manipulation of a variety of genres. Writing when the period of the three-volume novel (dominant from about 1840 to 1880) was coming to an end, he seems to have written everything except a traditional Victorian novel: plays, poems, essays, literary criticism, literary theory, biography, travelogue, reportage, romances, boys’ adventure stories, fantasies, fables, and short stories. Like the other writers who were asserting the serious artistic nature of the novel at this time he writes in a careful, almost poetic style – yet he provocatively combines this with an interest in popular genres. His popularity with critics continued to the First World War. He then had the misfortune to be followed by the Modernists who needed to cut themselves off from any tradition; Stevenson was felt to be one of the most constraining of immediately-preceding authors for his sheer ability, and one of the most insidious for his play with popular genres and for his preference for “romance” over the serious novel. Condemned by Virginia and especially Leonard Woolf (not unconnected, perhaps, with the fact that one of Stevenson’s great support
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1850
November
13: Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson [from about 1868: Robert Louis Balfour; from about 1873: Robert Louis] born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh
January
Family move to 1 (now 9) Inverleith Terrace, Edinburgh
December
13: Baptized
1852
May
Alison Cunningham (“Cummy”) becomes RLS’s nurse (remaining in the household until 14 November 1872)
1856
November
13: Receives a toy theatre as birthday present from his uncle and aunt, David and Jane Stevenson.
November-December
Dictates “The History of Moses” to his mother
1857
May
Family move to 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh
September
30: Goes to school for the first time: Mr Henderson’s Preparatory School, India Street (attends a few weeks because of poor health)
1859
June
14: Three-week holiday with his parents (till 6 July): Bridge of Allan, Perth and Dundee
October
Returns to Mr Henderson’s Preparatory School, India Street
1861
October
1: Starts attending Edinburgh Academy (for 15 months)
1862
July
RLS and parents visit Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (then Homburg), the capital of Hesse-Homburg, Germany. The family stayed in Homburg from 11 July – 8 August 1862 for a health cure for Mr Stevenson. From 1-11 July 1862, the family