Robert Louis Stevenson - wikipedia Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson ( 1850 - 11 - 13 ) 13 November 1850 Edinburgh, Scotland 3 December 1894 ( 1894 - 12 - 03 ) ( aged 44 ) Vailima, Samoan Islands Occupation Novelist, poet, travel writer Nationality Scottish Citizenship United Kingdom Education 1857 Mr. Henderson 's School, Edinburgh 1857 Private tutors 1859 Return to Mr. Henderson 's School 1861 Edinburgh Academy 1863 Boarding school in Isleworth, Middlesex 1864 Robert Thomson 's School, Edinburgh 1867 University of Edinburgh Period Victorian era Notable works Treasure Island A Child 's Garden of Verses Kidnapped Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Spouse Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne Children Isobel Osbourne Strong ( stepdaughter ) Lloyd Osbourne ( stepson ) Relatives father : Thomas Stevenson mother : Margaret Isabella Balfour Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson ( 13 November 1850 -- 3 December 1894 ) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child 's Garden of Verses. Stevenson was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J.M. Barrie, and G.K. Chesterton, who said that Stevenson `` seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins ''. Contents 1 Life 1.1 Childhood and youth 1.2 Education 1.3 Early writing and travels 1.4 Marriage 1.5 Attempted settlement in Europe and the US 1.6 Politics 1.7 Journey to the Pacific 1.8 Last years 2 Manuscripts 3 Musical compositions 4 Modern reception 5 Monuments and commemoration 6 Gallery 7 Bibliography 7.1 Novels 7.2 Short story collections 7.3 Short stories 7.4 Other works 7.5 Poetry 7.6 Travel writing 7.7 Island literature 8 See also 9 References 10 Secondary literature 11 External links Life Childhood and Youth Daguerreotype portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson as a young child Stevenson 's childhood home in Heriot Row Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on 13 November 1850, to Thomas Stevenson ( 1818 -- 87 ), a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife Margaret Isabella ( born Balfour ; 1829 -- 97 ). He was christened Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson. At about age 18, Stevenson changed the spelling of `` Lewis '' to `` Louis '', and in 1873, he dropped `` Balfour ''. Lighthouse design was the family 's profession : Thomas 's father ( Robert 's grandfather ) was the famous civil engineer Robert Stevenson, and both of Thomas 's brothers ( Robert 's uncles ) Alan and David, were in the same field. Indeed, even Thomas 's maternal grandfather, Thomas Smith, had been in the same profession. However, Robert 's mother 's family were not of the same profession. Margaret 's natal family, the Balfours, were gentry, tracing their lineage back to a certain Alexander Balfour who had held the lands of Inchyra in Fife in the fifteenth century. Margaret 's father, Lewis Balfour ( 1777 -- 1860 ), was a minister of the Church of Scotland at nearby Colinton, and her siblings included the physician George William Balfour and the marine engineer James Balfour. Stevenson spent the greater part of his boyhood holidays in his maternal grandfather 's house. `` Now I often wonder, '' wrote Stevenson, `` what I inherited from this old minister. I must suppose, indeed, that he was fond of preaching sermons, and so am I, though I never heard it maintained that either of us loved to hear them. '' Lewis Balfour and his daughter both had weak chests, so they often needed to stay in warmer climates for their health. Stevenson inherited a tendency to coughs and fevers, exacerbated when the family moved to a damp, chilly house at 1 Inverleith Terrace in 1851. The family moved again to the sunnier 17 Heriot Row when Stevenson was six years old, but the tendency to extreme sickness in winter remained with him until he was eleven. Illness would be a recurrent feature of his adult life and left him extraordinarily thin. Contemporary views were that he had tuberculosis, but more recent views are that it was bronchiectasis or even sarcoidosis. Stevenson 's parents were both devout and serious Presbyterians, but the household was not strict in its adherence to Calvinist principles. His nurse, Alison Cunningham ( known as Cummy ), was more fervently religious. Her Calvinism and folk beliefs were an early source of nightmares for the child, and he showed a precocious concern for religion. But she also cared for him tenderly in illness, reading to him from Bunyan and the Bible as he lay sick in bed and telling tales of the Covenanters. Stevenson recalled this time of sickness in `` The Land of Counterpane '' in A Child 's Garden of Verses ( 1885 ), dedicating the book to his nurse. Robert Louis Stevenson at the age of seven An only child, strange - looking and eccentric, Stevenson found it hard to fit in when he was sent to a nearby school at age six, a problem repeated at age eleven when he went on to the Edinburgh Academy ; but he mixed well in lively games with his cousins in summer holidays at Colinton. In any case, his frequent illnesses often kept him away from his first school, so he was taught for long stretches by private tutors. He was a late reader, first learning at age seven or eight, but even before this he dictated stories to his mother and nurse. He compulsively wrote stories throughout his childhood. His father was proud of this interest ; he had also written stories in his spare time until his own father found them and told him to `` give up such nonsense and mind your business. '' He paid for the printing of Robert 's first publication at sixteen, an account of the Covenanters ' rebellion, which was published on its two hundredth anniversary, The Pentland Rising : A Page of History, 1666 ( 1866 ). Education In September 1857, Stevenson went to Mr Henderson 's School in India Street, Edinburgh, but because of poor health stayed only a few weeks and did not return until October 1859. During his many absences he was taught by private tutors. In October 1861, he went to Edinburgh Academy, an independent school for boys, and stayed there sporadically for about fifteen months. In the autumn of 1863, he spent one term at an English boarding school at Spring Grove in Isleworth in Middlesex ( now an urban area of West London ). In October 1864, following an improvement to his health, he was sent to Robert Thomson 's private school in Frederick Street, Edinburgh, where he remained until he went to university. In November 1867, Stevenson entered the University of Edinburgh to study engineering. He showed from the start no enthusiasm for his studies and devoted much energy to avoiding lectures. This time was more important for the friendships he made with other students in the Speculative Society ( an exclusive debating club ), particularly with Charles Baxter, who would become Stevenson 's financial agent, and with a professor, Fleeming Jenkin, whose house staged amateur drama in which Stevenson took part, and whose biography he would later write. Perhaps most important at this point in his life was a cousin, Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson ( known as `` Bob '' ), a lively and light - hearted young man who, instead of the family profession, had chosen to study art. Each year during vacations, Stevenson travelled to inspect the family 's engineering works -- to Anstruther and Wick in 1868, with his father on his official tour of Orkney and Shetland islands lighthouses in 1869, and for three weeks to the island of Erraid in 1870. He enjoyed the travels more for the material they gave for his writing than for any engineering interest. The voyage with his father pleased him because a similar journey of Walter Scott with Robert Stevenson had provided the inspiration for Scott 's 1822 novel The Pirate. In April 1871, Stevenson notified his father of his decision to pursue a life of letters. Though the elder Stevenson was naturally disappointed, the surprise can not have been great, and Stevenson 's mother reported that he was `` wonderfully resigned '' to his son 's choice. To provide some security, it was agreed that Stevenson should read Law ( again at Edinburgh University ) and be called to the Scottish bar. In his 1887 poetry collection Underwoods, Stevenson muses on his having turned from the family profession : Say not of me that weakly I declined The labours of my sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper like a child. But rather say : In the afternoon of time A strenuous family dusted from its hands The sand of granite, and beholding far Along the sounding coast its pyramids And tall memorials catch the dying sun, Smiled well content, and to this childish task Around the fire addressed its evening hours. In other respects too, Stevenson was moving away from his upbringing. His dress became more Bohemian ; he already wore his hair long, but he now took to wearing a velveteen jacket and rarely attended parties in conventional evening dress. Within the limits of a strict allowance, he visited cheap pubs and brothels. More importantly, he had come to reject Christianity and declared himself an atheist. In January 1873, his father came across the constitution of the LJR ( Liberty, Justice, Reverence ) Club, of which Stevenson and his cousin Bob were members, which began : `` Disregard everything our parents have taught us ''. Questioning his son about his beliefs, he discovered the truth, leading to a long period of dissension with both parents : What a damned curse I am to my parents ! As my father said `` You have rendered my whole life a failure ''. As my mother said `` This is the heaviest affliction that has ever befallen me ''. O Lord, what a pleasant thing it is to have damned the happiness of ( probably ) the only two people who care a damn about you in the world. Early writing and Travels The author, c. 1877 Stevenson was visiting a cousin in England in late 1873 when he met two people who became very important to him : Sidney Colvin and Fanny ( Frances Jane ) Sitwell. Sitwell was a 34 - year - old woman with a son, who was separated from her husband. She attracted the devotion of many who met her, including Colvin, who eventually married her in 1901. Stevenson was also drawn to her, and they kept up a heated correspondence over several years in which he wavered between the role of a suitor and a son ( he addressed her as `` Madonna '' ). Colvin became Stevenson 's literary adviser and was the first editor of Stevenson 's letters after his death. Soon after their first meeting, he had placed Stevenson 's first paid contribution in The Portfolio -- an essay entitled `` Roads ''. Stevenson was soon active in London literary life, becoming acquainted with many of the writers of the time, including Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, and Leslie Stephen, the editor of the Cornhill Magazine who took an interest in Stevenson 's work. Stephen in turn introduced him to a more important friend while visiting Edinburgh in 1875. He took Stevenson with him to visit a patient at the Edinburgh Infirmary named William Ernest Henley, an energetic and talkative man with a wooden leg. Henley became a close friend and occasional literary collaborator, until a quarrel broke up the friendship in 1888. Henley is often seen as the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. Stevenson was sent to Menton on the French Riviera in November 1873 to recuperate after his health failed. He returned in better health in April 1874 and settled down to his studies, but he returned to France several times after that. He made long and frequent trips to the neighborhood of the Forest of Fontainebleau, staying at Barbizon, Grez - sur - Loing, and Nemours and becoming a member of the artists ' colonies there, as well as to Paris to visit galleries and the theatres. He qualified for the Scottish bar in July 1875, and his father added a brass plate to the Heriot Row house reading `` R.L. Stevenson, Advocate ''. His law studies did influence his books, but he never practised law ; all his energies were spent in travel and writing. One of his journeys was a canoe voyage in Belgium and France with Sir Walter Simpson, a friend from the Speculative Society, a frequent travel companion, and the author of The Art of Golf ( 1887 ). This trip was the basis of his first travel book An Inland Voyage ( 1878 ). Marriage Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, c. 1876 The canoe voyage with Simpson brought Stevenson to Grez in September 1876, where he first met Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne ( 1840 -- 1914 ). Born in Indianapolis, she had married at age seventeen and moved to Nevada to rejoin husband Samuel after his participation in the American Civil War. That marriage produced three children : Isobel ( or `` Belle '' ), Lloyd, and Hervey ( who died in 1875 ). But anger over her husband 's infidelities led to a number of separations. In 1875, she had taken her children to France, where she and Isobel studied art. Although Stevenson returned to Britain shortly after this first meeting, Fanny apparently remained in his thoughts, and he wrote an essay, `` On falling in love '', for the Cornhill Magazine. They met again early in 1877 and became lovers. Stevenson spent much of the following year with her and her children in France. In August 1878, Fanny returned to San Francisco, California. Stevenson at first remained in Europe, making the walking trip that would form the basis for Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes ( 1879 ). But in August 1879, he set off to join her, against the advice of his friends and without notifying his parents. He took second - class passage on the steamship Devonia, in part to save money but also to learn how others traveled and to increase the adventure of the journey. From New York City, he traveled overland by train to California. He later wrote about the experience in The Amateur Emigrant. Although it was good experience for his literature, it broke his health. French Hotel ( now `` Stevenson House '' ), Monterey, California, where he stayed in 1879 He was near death when he arrived in Monterey, California, where some local ranchers nursed him back to health. In Monterey he stayed for a time at the French Hotel ( located at 530 Houston Street ), now called the `` Stevenson House '' after him and now a museum dedicated to his memory. While there, he often dined `` on the cuff, '' as he said, at a nearby restaurant run by a Frenchman, Jules Simoneau, that stood at what is now Simoneau Plaza ; several years later, he sent Simoneau an inscribed copy of his novel Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), writing that it would be a stranger case still if Robert Louis Stevenson ever forgot Jules Simoneau. While in Monterey, Stevenson wrote an evocative article about `` the Old Pacific Capital '', Monterey. By December 1879, Stevenson had recovered his health enough to continue to San Francisco, where for several months he struggled `` all alone on forty - five cents a day, and sometimes less, with quantities of hard work and many heavy thoughts, '' in an effort to support himself through his writing. But by the end of the winter, his health was broken again and he found himself at death 's door. Fanny, now divorced and recovered from her own illness, came to Stevenson 's bedside and nursed him to recovery. `` After a while, '' he wrote, `` my spirit got up again in a divine frenzy, and has since kicked and spurred my vile body forward with great emphasis and success. '' When his father heard of his condition, he cabled him money to help him through this period. Fanny and Robert were married in May 1880, although, as he said, he was `` a mere complication of cough and bones, much fitter for an emblem of mortality than a bridegroom. '' With his new wife and her son, Lloyd, he travelled north of San Francisco to Napa Valley and spent a summer honeymoon at an abandoned mining camp on Mount Saint Helena. He wrote about this experience in The Silverado Squatters. He met Charles Warren Stoddard, co-editor of the Overland Monthly and author of South Sea Idylls, who urged Stevenson to travel to the South Pacific, an idea which would return to him many years later. In August 1880, he sailed with Fanny and Lloyd from New York to Britain and found his parents and his friend Sidney Colvin on the wharf at Liverpool, happy to see him return home. Gradually, his new wife was able to patch up differences between father and son and make herself a part of the new family through her charm and wit. Attempted settlement in Europe and the us Stevenson 's `` Cure Cottage '' in Saranac Lake For the next seven years, between 1880 and 1887, Stevenson searched in vain for a place of residence suitable to his state of health. He spent his summers at various places in Scotland and England, including Westbourne, Dorset, a residential area in Bournemouth. It was during his time in Bournemouth that he wrote the story Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, naming one of the characters ( Mr Poole ) after the town of Poole, which is situated next to Bournemouth. In Westbourne he named his house Skerryvore after the tallest lighthouse in Scotland, which his uncle Alan had built ( 1838 -- 1844 ). In the wintertime, Stevenson travelled to France and lived at Davos Platz and the Chalet de Solitude at Hyères, where, for a time, he enjoyed almost complete happiness. `` I have so many things to make life sweet for me, '' he wrote, `` it seems a pity I can not have that other one thing -- health. But though you will be angry to hear it, I believe, for myself at least, what is is best. I believed it all through my worst days, and I am not ashamed to profess it now. '' In spite of his ill health, he produced the bulk of his best - known work during these years : Treasure Island, his first widely popular book ; Kidnapped ; Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the story which established his wider reputation ; The Black Arrow ; and two volumes of verse, A Child 's Garden of Verses and Underwoods. At Skerryvore he gave a copy of Kidnapped to his friend and frequent visitor Henry James. When his father died in 1887, Stevenson felt free to follow the advice of his physician to try a complete change of climate, and he started with his mother and family for Colorado. But after landing in New York, they decided to spend the winter at Saranac Lake, New York, in the Adirondacks at a cure cottage now known as Stevenson Cottage. During the intensely cold winter, Stevenson wrote some of his best essays, including Pulvis et Umbra, began The Master of Ballantrae, and lightheartedly planned, for the following summer, a cruise to the southern Pacific Ocean. `` The proudest moments of my life, '' he wrote, `` have been passed in the stern - sheets of a boat with that romantic garment over my shoulders. '' Politics Much like his father, Stevenson remained a staunch Tory for most of his life. His cousin and biographer, Sir Graham Balfour, said that `` he probably throughout life would, if compelled to vote, have always supported the Conservative candidate. '' In 1866, Stevenson voted for Benjamin Disraeli, future Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, over Thomas Carlyle, for the role of Lord Rectorship of the University of Edinburgh. During his college years, he briefly identified himself as a `` red - hot socialist ''. By 1877, at only twenty - six years of age and before having written most of his major fictional works, Stevenson reflected : `` For my part, I look back to the time when I was a Socialist with something like regret. I have convinced myself ( for the moment ) that we had better leave these great changes to what we call great blind forces : their blindness being so much more perspicacious than the little, peering, partial eyesight of men (... ) Now I know that in thus turning Conservative with years, I am going through the normal cycle of change and travelling in the common orbit of men 's opinions. I submit to this, as I would submit to gout or gray hair, as a concomitant of growing age or else of failing animal heat ; but I do not acknowledge that it is necessarily a change for the better -- I dare say it is deplorably for the worse. '' Journey to the Pacific Stevenson and King Kalākaua of Hawaii, c. 1889 The author with his wife and their household in Vailima, Samoa, c. 1892 Stevenson 's birthday fete at Vailima, Nov. 1894 Stevenson 's home at Vailima, Samoa showing him on the veranda c. 1893 Burial on Mount Vaea in Samoa, 1894 Stevenson 's tomb on Mt. Vaea, c. 1909 In June 1888, Stevenson chartered the yacht Casco and set sail with his family from San Francisco. The vessel `` plowed her path of snow across the empty deep, far from all track of commerce, far from any hand of help. '' The sea air and thrill of adventure for a time restored his health, and for nearly three years he wandered the eastern and central Pacific, stopping for extended stays at the Hawaiian Islands, where he spent much time with and became a good friend of King Kalākaua. He befriended the king 's niece, Princess Victoria Kaiulani, who also had a link to Scottish heritage. He spent time at the Gilbert Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, and the Samoan Islands. During this period, he completed The Master of Ballantrae, composed two ballads based on the legends of the islanders, and wrote The Bottle Imp. He witnessed the Samoan crisis. He preserved the experience of these years in his various letters and in his In the South Seas ( which was published posthumously ), an account of the 1888 cruise which Stevenson and Fanny undertook on the Casco from the Hawaiian Islands to the Marquesas and Tuamotu islands. An 1889 voyage, this time with Lloyd, on the trading schooner Equator, visiting Butaritari, Mariki, Apaiang, and Abemama in the Gilbert Islands, ( also known as the Kingsmills ) now Kiribati. During the 1889 voyage, they spent several months on Abemama with the tyrant - chief Tem Binoka, of Abemama, Aranuka, and Kuria. Stevenson extensively described Binoka in In the South Seas. One particular open letter from this period stands as testimony to his activism and indignation at the pettiness of the `` powers that be '', in the person of a Presbyterian minister in Honolulu called Charles McEwen Hyde. During his time in the Hawaiian Islands, Stevenson had visited Molokai and the leper colony there, shortly after the demise of Father Damien. When Dr. Hyde wrote a letter to a fellow clergyman speaking ill of Father Damien, Stevenson wrote a scathing open letter of rebuke to Dr. Hyde. Soon afterwards, in April 1890, Stevenson left Sydney on the Janet Nicoll for his third and final voyage among the South Seas islands. While Stevenson intended to produce another book of travel writing to follow his earlier book In the South Seas, it was his wife who eventually published her journal of their third voyage. ( Fanny misnames the ship as the Janet Nichol in her account of the 1890 voyage, The Cruise of the Janet Nichol. ) A fellow passenger was Jack Buckland, whose stories of life as an island trader became the inspiration for the character of Tommy Hadden in The Wrecker ( 1892 ), which Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne wrote together. Buckland visited the Stevensons at Vailima in 1894. Last years In 1890, Stevenson purchased a tract of about 400 acres ( 1.6 km2 ) in Upolu, an island in Samoa. Here, after two aborted attempts to visit Scotland, he established himself, after much work, upon his estate in the village of Vailima. He took the native name Tusitala ( Samoan for `` Teller of Tales '', i.e. a storyteller ). His influence spread to the Samoans, who consulted him for advice, and he soon became involved in local politics. He was convinced the European officials appointed to rule the Samoans were incompetent, and after many futile attempts to resolve the matter, he published A Footnote to History. This was such a stinging protest against existing conditions that it resulted in the recall of two officials, and Stevenson feared for a time it would result in his own deportation. When things had finally blown over he wrote to Colvin, who came from a family of distinguished colonial administrators, `` I used to think meanly of the plumber ; but how he shines beside the politician ! '' The Stevensons were on friendly terms with some of the colonial leaders and their families. At one point, he formally donated, by deed of gift, his birthday to the daughter of the American Land Commissioner Henry Clay Ide since she was born on Christmas Day and had no birthday celebration separate from the family 's Christmas celebrations. This led to a strong bond between the Stevenson and Ide families. In addition to building his house and clearing his land and helping the Samoans in many ways, he found time to work at his writing. He felt that `` there was never any man had so many irons in the fire ''. He wrote The Beach of Falesa, Catriona ( titled David Balfour in the US ), The Ebb - Tide, and the Vailima Letters during this period. Stevenson grew depressed and wondered if he had exhausted his creative vein as he had been `` overworked bitterly ''. He felt that with each fresh attempt, the best he could write was `` ditch - water ''. He even feared that he might again become a helpless invalid. He rebelled against this idea : `` I wish to die in my boots ; no more Land of Counterpane for me. To be drowned, to be shot, to be thrown from a horse -- ay, to be hanged, rather than pass again through that slow dissolution. '' He then suddenly had a return of his old energy and he began work on Weir of Hermiston. `` It 's so good that it frightens me, '' he is reported to have exclaimed. He felt that this was the best work he had done. He was convinced, `` sick and well, I have had splendid life of it, grudge nothing, regret very little... take it all over, damnation and all, would hardly change with any man of my time. '' On 3 December 1894, Stevenson was talking to his wife and straining to open a bottle of wine when he suddenly exclaimed, `` What 's that ! '', asked his wife `` Does my face look strange ? '' and collapsed. He died within a few hours, probably of a cerebral haemorrhage. He was forty - four years old. The Samoans insisted on surrounding his body with a watch - guard during the night and on bearing their Tusitala upon their shoulders to nearby Mount Vaea, where they buried him on a spot overlooking the sea on land donated by British Acting Vice Consul Thomas Trood. Stevenson had always wanted his ' Requiem ' inscribed on his tomb : Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me : Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. However, the piece is misquoted in many places, including his tomb : Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. Stevenson was loved by the Samoans, and his tombstone epigraph was translated to a Samoan song of grief which is well - known and still sung in Samoa. Manuscripts Half of Stevenson 's original manuscripts are lost, including those of Treasure Island, The Black Arrow, and The Master of Ballantrae. Stevenson 's heirs sold Stevenson 's papers during World War I ; many Stevenson documents were auctioned off in 1918. Musical compositions Besides playing the piano and flageolet, Stevenson wrote over 123 original musical compositions or arrangements, including solos, duets, trios and quartets for various combinations of flageolet, flute, clarinet, violin, guitar, mandolin, and piano. His works include ten songs written to his own poetry and with original or arranged melodies. In 1968, Robert Hughes arranged a number of Stevenson 's works for chamber orchestra, which toured the Pacific Northwest that year. Modern reception Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson was a celebrity in his own time, but with the rise of modern literature after World War I, he was seen for much of the 20th century as a writer of the second class, relegated to children 's literature and horror genres. Condemned by literary figures such as Virginia Woolf ( daughter of his early mentor Leslie Stephen ) and her husband Leonard, he was gradually excluded from the canon of literature taught in schools. His exclusion reached a height when in the 1973 2,000 - page Oxford Anthology of English Literature Stevenson was entirely unmentioned ; and The Norton Anthology of English Literature excluded him from 1968 to 2000 ( 1st -- 7th editions ), including him only in the 8th edition ( 2006 ). The late 20th century saw the start of a re-evaluation of Stevenson as an artist of great range and insight, a literary theorist, an essayist and social critic, a witness to the colonial history of the Pacific Islands, and a humanist. Even as early as 1965, the pendulum had begun to swing : he was praised by Roger Lancelyn Green, one of the Oxford Inklings, as a writer of a consistently high level of `` literary skill or sheer imaginative power '' and a co-originator with H. Rider Haggard of the Age of the Story Tellers. He is now being re-evaluated as a peer of authors such as Joseph Conrad ( whom Stevenson influenced with his South Seas fiction ), and Henry James, with new scholarly studies and organisations devoted to Stevenson. Throughout the vicissitudes of his scholarly reception, Stevenson has remained popular worldwide. According to the Index Translationum, Stevenson is ranked the 26th most translated author in the world, ahead of fellow nineteenth - century writers Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe. Monuments and commemoration Head of RLS, Writer 's Museum, Edinburgh Statue of Robert Louis Stevenson as a child, outside Colinton Parish Church, Scotland The Writers ' Museum near Edinburgh 's Royal Mile devotes a room to Stevenson, containing some of his personal possessions from childhood through to adulthood. The Stevenson House at 530 Houston Street in Monterey, California, formerly the French Hotel, memorializes Stevenson 's 1879 stay in `` the Old Pacific Capital '', as he was crossing the United States to join his future wife, Fanny Osbourne. The Stevenson House museum is graced with a superb bas relief depicting the sickly author writing in bed. Robert Louis Stevenson 's former home in Vailima, Samoa is now a museum dedicated to the later years of his life. The museum collection includes several original items belonging to Stevenson and his family. The path to Stevenson 's grave at the top of Mt Vaea commences from the museum. A bronze relief memorial to Stevenson, designed by the American sculptor Augustus Saint - Gaudens in 1904, is mounted in the Moray Aisle of St Giles ' Cathedral, Edinburgh. Saint - Gaudens ' scaled - down version of this relief is in the collection of the Montclair Art Museum. Another small version depicting Stevenson with a cigarette in his hand rather than the pen he holds in the St. Giles memorial is displayed in the Nichols House Museum in Beacon Hill, Boston. Another memorial in Edinburgh stands in West Princes Street Gardens below Edinburgh Castle ; it is a simple upright stone inscribed with `` RLS -- A Man of Letters 1850 -- 1894 '' by sculptor Ian Hamilton Finlay in 1987. In 2013, a statue of Stevenson as a child with his dog was unveiled by the author Ian Rankin outside Colinton Parish Church. The sculptor of the statue was Alan Herriot, and the money to erect it was raised by the Colinton Community Conservation Trust. A plaque above the door of a house in Castleton of Braemar states `` Here R.L. Stevenson spent the Summer of 1881 and wrote Treasure Island, his first great work ''. A garden was designed by the Bournemouth Corporation in 1957 as a memorial to Stevenson, on the site of his Westbourne house, `` Skerryvore '', which he occupied from 1885 to 1887. A statue of the Skerryvore lighthouse is present on the site. In 1966, the Canadian actor Lloyd Bochner played Stevenson in the episode `` Jolly Roger and Wells Fargo '' of the syndicated American television series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Robert Taylor and directed by Denver Pyle. In 1994, to mark the 100th anniversary of Stevenson 's death, the Royal Bank of Scotland issued a series of commemorative £ 1 notes which featured a quill pen and Stevenson 's signature on the obverse, and Stevenson 's face on the reverse side. Alongside Stevenson 's portrait are scenes from some of his books and his house in Western Samoa. Two million notes were issued, each with a serial number beginning `` RLS ''. The first note to be printed was sent to Samoa in time for their centenary celebrations on 3 December 1994. At least five US elementary schools are named after Stevenson, in the Upper West Side of New York City, in Fridley, Minnesota, in Burbank, California,, in Grandview Heights, Ohio ( suburb of Columbus ), and in San Francisco, California. There is an R.L. Stevenson middle school in Honolulu, Hawaii and in Saint Helena, California. Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California, was established in 1952 and still exists as a college preparatory boarding school. Robert Louis Stevenson State Park near Calistoga, California, contains the location where he and Fanny spent their honeymoon in 1880. A street in Honolulu 's Waikiki District, where Stevenson lived while in the Hawaiian Islands, was named after his Samoan moniker : Tusitala. In 2011, Robert Louis Stevenson 's open letter defending Father Damien from Rev. Dr. Charles McEwen Hyde influenced the founding of the Saint Damien Advocates in Hawaii. The Chemin du Stevenson ( GR 70 ) is a popular long - distance footpath in France that approximately follows Stevenson 's route as described in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes. There are numerous monuments and businesses named after him along the route, including a fountain in the town of Saint - Jean - du - Gard where Stevenson sold his donkey Modestine and took a stagecoach to Alès. The Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial is an outdoor memorial in Portsmouth Square, San Francisco, California. A memorial by Gutzon Borglum was unveiled, in 1915, at Baker Cottage, Saranac Lake, New York. Gallery Photographic portrait, c. 1887 Platinum print, 1885, by Albert George Dew - Smith ; from the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland Stevenson paces in his dining room in an 1885 portrait by John Singer Sargent. His wife Fanny, seated in an Indian dress, is visible in the lower right corner. Portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1887 Portrait by William Blake Richmond, 1886 Portrait by Girolamo Nerli, 1892 by Henry Walter Barnett, 1894 Bibliography Novels Illustration from Kidnapped. Caption : `` Hoseason turned upon him with a flash '' ( chapter VII, `` I Go to Sea in the Brig `` Covenant '' of Dysart `` ) The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth ( 1877 ) Unfinished and unpublished. An annotated edition of the original manuscript, edited and introduced by Roger G. Swearingen, was published as The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth : An Extravaganza in August 2014. Treasure Island ( 1883 ) His first major success, a tale of piracy, buried treasure, and adventure, has been filmed frequently. In an 1881 letter to W.E. Henley, he provided the earliest known title, `` The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island : a Story for Boys ''. Prince Otto ( 1885 ) Stevenson 's third full - length narrative, an action romance set in the imaginary Germanic state of Grünewald. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), a novella about a dual personality much depicted in plays and films, also influential in the growth of understanding of the subconscious mind through its treatment of a kind and intelligent physician who turns into a psychopathic monster after imbibing a drug intended to separate good from evil in a personality. Kidnapped ( 1886 ) is a historical novel that tells of the boy David Balfour 's pursuit of his inheritance and his alliance with Alan Breck Stewart in the intrigues of Jacobite troubles in Scotland. The Black Arrow : A Tale of the Two Roses ( 1888 ) An historical adventure novel and romance set during the Wars of the Roses. The Master of Ballantrae : A Winter 's Tale ( 1889 ), a masterful tale of revenge, set in Scotland, America, and India. The Wrong Box ( 1889 ) ; co-written with Lloyd Osbourne. A comic novel of a tontine, also filmed ( 1966 ). The Wrecker ( 1892 ) ; co-written with Lloyd Osbourne. Catriona ( 1893 ), also known as David Balfour, is a sequel to Kidnapped, telling of Balfour 's further adventures. The Ebb - Tide ( 1894 ) ; co-written with Lloyd Osbourne. Weir of Hermiston ( 1896 ). Unfinished at the time of Stevenson 's death, considered to have promised great artistic growth. St Ives : Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England ( 1897 ). Unfinished at the time of Stevenson 's death, the novel was completed by Arthur Quiller - Couch. Short story Collections New Arabian Nights ( 1882 ) More New Arabian Nights : The Dynamiter ( 1885 ) ; co-written with Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables ( 1887 ) ; contains 6 stories. Island Nights ' Entertainments ( also known as South Sea Tales ) ( 1893 ) contains three longer stories. Fables ( 1896 ) contains 20 stories : The persons of the tale, The sinking ship, The two matches, The sick man and the fireman, The devil and the innkeeper, The penitent, The yellow paint, The house of Eld, The four reformers, The man and his friend, The reader, The citizen and the traveller, The distinguished stranger, The carthorse and the saddlehorse, The tadpole and the frog, something in it, Faith, half faith and no faith at all, The touchstone, The poor thing, The song of the morrow. Tales and Fantasies, 1905, contains The Story of a Lie, The Body Snatcher, The Misadventures of John Nicholson. Short stories List of short stories sorted chronologically. Note : does not include collaborations with Fanny found in More New Arabian Nights : The Dynamiter. Title Date Collection Notes `` When the Devil was Well '' 1875 1921, Boston Bibliophile Society `` An Old Song '' 1875 Uncollected Stevenson 's first Published Fiction, in London, 1877. Anonymous. Republished in 1982 by R. Swearingen. `` Edifying Letters of the Rutherford Family '' 1877 Unfinished, uncollected. Not truly a short - story. First published in 1982 by R. Swearingen. `` Will O ' the Mill '' 1877 The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887 First published in the Cornhill Magazine, 1878 `` A Lodging for the Night '' 1877 New Arabian Nights ( 1882 ) First published in Temple Bar in 1877 `` The Sire De Malétroits Door '' 1877 New Arabian Nights, 1882 First published in Temple Bar in 1878 `` Later - day Arabian Nights '' 1878 New Arabian Nights, 1882 First published in London in 1878. Seven interconnected stories in two cycles : The Suicide Club ( 3 stories ) and The Rajah 's Diamond ( 4 stories ). `` Providence and the Guitar '' 1878 New Arabian Nights, 1882 First published in London in 1878 `` The Story of a Lie '' 1879 The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson, vol 3, 1895 First published in New Quarterly Magazine in 1879. `` The Pavilion on the Links '' 1880 With a few suppressions in New Arabian Nights, 1882 First Published in the Cornhill Magazine in 1880. Told in 9 mini-chapters. Conan Doyle in 1890 called it the first English short story. `` Thrawn Janet '' 1881 The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887 First published in the Cornhill Magazine, 1881 `` The Body Snatcher '' 1881 Edinburgh Edition, 1895 First published in the Christmas 1884 edition of the Pall Mall Gazette. `` The Merry Men '' 1882 With changes in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887 First published in the Cornhill Magazine in 1882. `` The Treasure of Franchard '' 1883 The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887 First published in Longman 's Magazine, 1883 `` Markheim '' 1884 The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887 First published in the Broken Shaft. Unwin 's Annual., 1885 `` Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde '' 1885 1886 Variously referred to as a short story or novella, or more rarely, a short novel. `` Olalla '' 1885 The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887 First published in the Court and Society Review, 1885 `` The Misadventures of John Nicholson : A Christmas Story '' 1885 -- 87 Edinburgh Edition, 1897 First published in Yule Tide, 1887 `` The Bottle Imp '' 1891 Island Nights ' Entertainments ( 1893 ) First published in Black and White, 1891 `` The Beach of Falesá '' 1892 Island Nights ' Entertainments ( 1893 ) First published in The Illustrated London News in 1892 `` The Isle of Voices '' 1892 Island Nights ' Entertainments ( 1893 ) First published in National Observer, 1883 `` The Waif Woman '' 1892 1914 First published in the Scribner 's Magazine, 1914 Other works `` `` Béranger, Pierre Jean de ''. Encyclopædia Britannica ( 11th ed. ). 1911. -- first published in the 9th edition ( 1875 -- 1889 ). Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers ( 1881 ), contains the essays Virginibus Puerisque i ( 1876 ) ; Virginibus Puerisque ii ( 1881 ) ; Virginibus Puerisque iii : On Falling in Love ( 1877 ) ; Virginibus Puerisque iv : The Truth of Intercourse ( 1879 ) ; Crabbed Age and Youth ( 1878 ) ; An Apology for Idlers ( 1877 ) ; Ordered South ( 1874 ) ; Aes Triplex ( 1878 ) ; El Dorado ( 1878 ) ; The English Admirals ( 1878 ) ; Some Portraits by Raeburn ( previously unpublished ) ; Child 's Play ( 1878 ) ; Walking Tours ( 1876 ) ; Pan 's Pipes ( 1878 ) ; A Plea for Gas Lamps ( 1878 ). Familiar Studies of Men and Books ( 1882 ) containing Preface, by Way of Criticism ( not previously published ) ; Victor Hugo 's Romances ( 1874 ) ; Some Aspects of Robert Burns ( 1879 ) ; The Gospel According to Walt Whitman ( 1878 ) ; Henry David Thoreau : His Character and Opinions ( 1880 ) ; Yoshida - Torajiro ( 1880 ) ; François Villon, Student, Poet, Housebreaker ( 1877 ) ; Charles of Orleans ( 1876 ) ; Samuel Pepys ( 1881 ) ; John Knox and his Relations to Women ( 1875 ). Memories and Portraits ( 1887 ), a collection of essays. On the Choice of a Profession ( 1887 ) Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin ( 1888 ) Father Damien : an Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu ( 1890 ) Vailima Letters ( 1895 ) The New Lighthouse on the Dhu Heartach Rock, Argyllshire ( 1995 ). Based on an 1872 manuscript edited by R.G. Swearingen. California. Silverado Museum. Sophia Scarlet ( 2008 ). Based on 1892 manuscript edited by Robert Hoskins. AUT Media ( AUT University ). Poetry A Child 's Garden of Verses ( 1885 ), written for children but also popular with their parents. Includes such favourites as `` My Shadow '' and `` The Lamplighter ''. Often thought to represent a positive reflection of the author 's sickly childhood. Underwoods ( 1887 ), a collection of poetry written in both English and Scots. Ballads ( 1891 ), included Ticonderoga : A Legend of the West Highlands ( 1887 ). Based on a famous Scottish ghost story. Songs of Travel and Other Verses ( 1896 ) Poems Hitherto Unpublished, 3 vol. 1916, 1916, 1921, Boston Bibliophile Society, republished in New Poems Travel writing An Inland Voyage ( 1878 ), travels with a friend in a Rob Roy canoe from Antwerp ( Belgium ) to Pontoise, just north of Paris. Edinburgh : Picturesque Notes ( 1878 ) - a paean to his birthplace, it provides Stevenson 's personal introduction to each part of the city and some history behind the various sections of the city and its most famous buildings. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes ( 1879 ), two weeks ' solo ramble ( with Modestine as his beast of burden ) in the mountains of Cévennes ( south - central France ), one of the first books to present hiking and camping as recreational activities. It tells of commissioning one of the first sleeping bags. The Silverado Squatters ( 1883 ). An unconventional honeymoon trip to an abandoned mining camp in Napa Valley with his new wife Fanny and her son Lloyd. He presciently identifies the California wine industry as one to be reckoned with. Across the Plains ( written in 1879 -- 80, published in 1892 ). Second leg of his journey, by train from New York to California ( then picks up with The Silverado Squatters ). Also includes other travel essays. The Amateur Emigrant ( written 1879 -- 80, published 1895 ). An account of the first leg of his journey to California, by ship from Europe to New York. Andrew Noble ( From the Clyde to California : Robert Louis Stevenson 's Emigrant Journey, 1985 ) considers it to be his finest work. The Old and New Pacific Capitals ( 1882 ). An account of his stay in Monterey, California in August to December 1879. Never published separately. See, for example, James D. Hart, ed., From Scotland to Silverado, 1966. Essays of Travel ( London : Chatto & Windus, 1905 ) Island literature Although not well known, his island fiction and non-fiction is among the most valuable and collected of the 19th century body of work that addresses the Pacific area. In the South Seas ( 1896 ). A collection of Stevenson 's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific. A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa ( 1892 ). See also Poetry portal Children 's literature portal Biography portal Book : Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson State Park Victorian literature Salvation Army Waiʻoli Tea Room ( Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Grass House on premises ) Writers ' Museum References Jump up ^ Menikoff, Barry. The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson ; Introduction. Modern Library, 2002, p. xx. Jump up ^ Menikoff, Barry. The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson ; Introduction. Modern Library, 2002, p. xvii. ^ Jump up to : See the Index Translationum. Jump up ^ Dillard, R.H.W. ( 1998 ). Introduction to Treasure Island. New York : Signet Classics. xiii. ISBN 0 - 451 - 52704 - 6. Jump up ^ Chaney, Lisa ( 2006 ). Hide - and - seek with Angels : The Life of J.M. Barrie. London : Arrow Books. ISBN 0 - 09 - 945323 - 1. Jump up ^ Chesterton, Gilbert Keith ( 1913 ). The Victorian Age in Literature. London : Henry Holt and Co. p. 246. Jump up ^ Mehew ( 2004 ). The spelling `` Lewis '' is said to have been rejected because his father violently disliked another person of the same name, and the new spelling was not accompanied by a change of pronunciation : Balfour ( 1901 ) I, 29 n. 1. Jump up ^ Furnas ( 1952 ), 23 -- 4 ; Mehew ( 2004 ). ^ Jump up to : Paxton ( 2004 ). Jump up ^ Balfour ( 1901 ), 10 -- 12 ; Furnas ( 1952 ), 24 ; Mehew ( 2004 ). Jump up ^ Memories and Portraits ( 1887 ), Chapter VII. The Manse. Jump up ^ `` A Robert Louis Stevenson Timeline ( born Nov. 13th 1850 in Edinburgh, died Dec. 3rd 1894 in Samoa ) ''. Robert-louis-stevenson.org. Retrieved 14 May 2012. Jump up ^ Furnas ( 1952 ), 25 -- 8 ; Mehew ( 2004 ). Jump up ^ Holmes, Lowell ( 2002 ). Treasured Islands : Cruising the South Seas with Robert Louis Stevenson. Sheridan House, Inc. ISBN 1 - 57409 - 130 - 1. Jump up ^ Sharma OP ( 2005 ). `` Murray Kornfeld, American College of Chest Physician, and sarcoidosis : a historical footnote : 2004 Murray Kornfeld Memorial Founders Lecture ''. Chest. 128 ( 3 ) : 1830 -- 35. doi : 10.1378 / chest. 128.3. 1830. PMID 16162793. Jump up ^ `` Stevenson 's Nurse Dead : Alison Cunningham ( '' Cummy `` ) lived to be over 91 years old '' ( PDF ). The New York Times. 10 August 1913. p. 3. Jump up ^ Furnas ( 1952 ), 28 -- 32 ; Mehew ( 2004 ). Jump up ^ Available at Bartleby and elsewhere. Jump up ^ Furnas ( 1952 ), 29 ; Mehew ( 2004 ). Jump up ^ Furnas ( 1952 ), 34 -- 6 ; Mehew ( 2004 ). Alison Cunningham 's recollection of Stevenson balances the picture of an oversensitive child, `` like other bairns, whiles very naughty '' : Furnas ( 1952 ), 30. Jump up ^ Mehew ( 2004 ). Jump up ^ Balfour ( 1901 ) I, 67 ; Furnas ( 1952 ), pp. 43 -- 45. Jump up ^ Stephenson, Robert Louis ( 1850 -- 1894 ) -- Childhood and schooling. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved : 1 August 2013. Jump up ^ Furnas ( 1952 ), 51 -- 54, 60 -- 62 ; Mehew ( 2004 ) Jump up ^ Balfour ( 1901 ) I, 86 -- 8 ; 90 -- 4 ; Furnas ( 1952 ), 64 -- 9 Jump up ^ Balfour ( 1901 ) I, 70 -- 2 ; Furnas ( 1952 ), 48 -- 9 ; Mehew ( 2004 ) Jump up ^ Balfour ( 1901 ) I, 85 -- 6 Jump up ^ Underwoods ( 1887 ), Poem XXXVIII Jump up ^ Furnas ( 1952 ), 69 -- 70 ; Mehew ( 2004 ) Jump up ^ Furnas ( 1952 ), 53 -- 7 ; Mehew ( 2004. Jump up ^ Theo Tait ( 30 January 2005 ). `` Like an intelligent hare -- Theo Tait reviews Robert Louis Stevenson by Claire Harman ''. The Telegraph. Retrieved 4 August 2013. A decadent dandy who envied the manly Victorian achievements of his family, a professed atheist haunted by religious terrors, a generous and loving man who fell out with many of his friends -- the Robert Louis Stevenson of Claire Harman 's biography is all of these and, of course, a bed - ridden invalid who wrote some of the finest adventure stories in the language. (... ) Worse still, he affected a Bohemian style, haunted the seedier parts of the Old Town, read Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, and declared himself an atheist. This caused a painful rift with his father, who damned him as a `` careless infidel ''. Jump up ^ Furnas ( 1952 ), 69 with n. 15 ( on the club ) ; 72 -- 6 Jump up ^ Furnas ( 1952 ), 81 -- 2 ; 85 -- 9 ; Mehew ( 2004 ) Jump up ^ Furnas ( 1952 ), 84 -- 5 Jump up ^ Furnas ( 1952 ), 95 ; 101 Jump up ^ Balfour ( 1901 ) I, 123 - 4 ; Furnas ( 1952 ) 105 -- 6 ; Mehew ( 2004 ) Jump up ^ Furnas ( 1952 ), 89 -- 95 Jump up ^ Balfour ( 1901 ) I, 128 -- 37 Jump up ^ Furnas ( 1952 ), 100 -- 1 Jump up ^ Balfour ( 1901 ) I, 127 Jump up ^ Furnas ( 1952 ), 122 -- 9 ; Mehew ( 2004 ) Jump up ^ Balfour ( 1901 ) I, 145 -- 6 ; Mehew ( 2004 ) Jump up ^ Furnas ( 1952 ), 130 -- 6 ; Mehew ( 2004 ) Jump up ^ Balfour ( 1901 ) I, 164 -- 5 ; Furnas ( 1952 ), 142 -- 6 ; Mehew ( 2004 ) Jump up ^ Letter to Sidney Colvin, January 1880, The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 1, Chapter IV Jump up ^ `` To Edmund Gosse, Monterey, Monterey Co., California, 8 October 1879, '' The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 1, Chapter IV Jump up ^ `` To P.G. Hamerton, Kinnaird Cottage, Pitlochry ( July 1881 ), '' The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 1, Chapter V Jump up ^ Isobel by this time was married, to artist Joseph Strong. Jump up ^ The physician who treated Stevenson there was Dr. Carl Rüedi. Jump up ^ `` To Sidney Colvin, Pitlochry, August 1881, '' The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 1, Chapter V Jump up ^ References to Skerryvore come from Leon Edel 's Henry James : A Life, c. 1985, pp. 309 -- 310 Jump up ^ `` To W.E. Henley, Pitlochry, if you please, ( August ) 1881, '' The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 1, Chapter V Jump up ^ Terry, R.C., ed. ( 1996 ). Robert Louis Stevenson : Interviews and Recollections. Iowa City : U of Iowa P. p. 30. ISBN 978 - 0 - 87745 - 512 - 7. CS1 maint : Multiple names : authors list ( link ) CS1 maint : Extra text : authors list ( link ) Jump up ^ Reginald Charles Terry ( 1996 ). `` Robert Louis Stevenson : Interviews and Recollections ''. p. 49. University of Iowa Press, Jump up ^ Stevenson, Robert Louis ( 1907 ) ( originally written 1877 ). `` Crabbed Age and Youth ''. Crabbed Age and Youth and Other Essays. Portland, Maine : Thomas B. Mosher. pp. 11 -- 12. Jump up ^ Quoted from Stevenson 's diary in Overton, Jacqueline M. The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls. New York : Charles Scribner 's Sons, 1933 Jump up ^ In the South Seas ( 1896 ) & ( 1900 ) Chatto & Windus ; republished by The Hogarth Press ( 1987 ). A collection of Stevenson 's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific ^ Jump up to : In the South Seas ( 1896 ) & ( 1900 ) Chatto & Windus ; republished by The Hogarth Press ( 1987 ) Jump up ^ `` Damien Father Damien -- Letter ''. Worldwideschool.org. Retrieved 14 May 2012. Jump up ^ The Cruise of the Janet Nichol Among the South Sea Islands, Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Scribner 's Sons, New York, 1914 Jump up ^ The Cruise of the Janet Nichol among the South Sea Islands A Diary by Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson ( first published 1914 ), republished 2004, editor, Roslyn Jolly ( U. of Washington Press / U. of New South Wales Press ) Jump up ^ Hadden is described as being based upon Jack Buckland ( ' Tin Jack ' ) a well - known remittance man and copra trader in Sydney. Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, ed. by Ernest Mehew ( New Haven & London : Yale University Press, 2001 ) p. 418, n. 3 Jump up ^ Robert Louis Stevenson, The Wrecker, in Tales of the South Seas : Island Landfalls ; The Ebb - Tide ; The Wrecker ( Edinburgh : Canongate Classics, 1996 ), ed. and introduced by Jenni Calder Jump up ^ ' Memories of Vailima ' by Isobel Strong & Lloyd Osbourne, Archibald Constable & Co : Westminster ( 1903 ) Jump up ^ Letter to Sidney Colvin, 17 April 1893, Vailima Letters, Chapter XXVIII Jump up ^ Taylor Erwin Gauthier ( October 1923 ). `` For Stevenson Lovers ''. The Rotarian. Rotary International. 23 ( 4 ) : 38. ISSN 0035 - 838X. Jump up ^ Ann C. Colley ( 2004 ). Robert Louis Stevenson and the colonial imagination. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 141. ISBN 978 - 0 - 7546 - 3506 - 2. Jump up ^ Letter to Sidney Colvin, 3 January 1892, Vailima Letters, Chapter XIV. Jump up ^ `` Robert Louis Stevenson -- Bibliography : Detailed list of works ''. Retrieved 20 April 2008. Jump up ^ Letter to Sidney Colvin, December 1893, Vailima Letters, Chapter XXXV Jump up ^ `` To W.E. Henley, ( Trinity College, Cambridge, Autumn 1878 ), '' The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 1, Chapter III Jump up ^ Letter to Sidney Colvin, May 1892, Vailima Letters, Chapter XVIII Jump up ^ Stevenson, Robert Louis ( 2006 ). Robert Allen Armstrong, ed. An Inland Voyage, Including Travels with a Donkey. Cosimo, Inc. p. xvi. ISBN 978 - 1 - 59605 - 823 - 1. Jump up ^ `` To H.B. Baildon, Vailima, Upolu ( undated, but written in 1891 )., '' The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 2, Chapter XI Jump up ^ Balfour, Graham ( 1906 ). The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson London : Methuen. 264 Jump up ^ `` Stevenson 's tomb ''. National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 20 October 2008. Jump up ^ Robert Louis Stevenson at Find a Grave Jump up ^ `` Requiem ''. nls.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2015. Jump up ^ Jolly, Roslyn ( 2009 ). Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific : Travel, Empire, and the Author 's Profession. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 160. ISBN 0 - 7546 - 6195 - 4. Jump up ^ `` Bid to trace lost Robert Louis Stevenson manuscripts ''. BBC News. Retrieved 8 June 2015. ^ Jump up to : Stephen Arata ( 2006 ). `` Robert Louis Stevenson ''. David Scott Kastan ( ed. ). The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Vol. 5 : 99 -- 102 Jump up ^ introduction to 1965 Everyman 's Library edition of the one - volume The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau Jump up ^ `` Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial ''. St Giles ' Cathedral. Retrieved 20 October 2008. Jump up ^ ( 50.199. 148.5 : 8081 / view / objects / asitem / 45 / 97 / primaryMaker - asc ? t : state : flow = 92095637 - f394 - 4ee3 - 9846 - f82e8985400e Saint - Gaudens, Augustus ( American, 1848 -- 1907 ) : Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887 -- 88 ( cast after 1895 ) ), accessed 26 February 2015 Jump up ^ Petronella, Mary Melvin, ed., Victorian Boston Today : Twelve Walking Tours ( Lebanon, N.H. : University Press of New England, 2004 ), p. 107. Jump up ^ `` Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Grove ''. City of Edinburgh Council. Retrieved 27 October 2013. ^ Jump up to : ( 27 October 2013 ) Robert Louis Stevenson statue unveiled by Ian Rankin BBC News Scotland, Retrieved 27 October 2013 Jump up ^ `` '' Jolly Roger and Wells Fargo '' on Death Valley Days ``. Internet Movie Data Base. 23 December 1966. Retrieved 1 June 2015. Jump up ^ `` Royal Bank Commemorative Notes ''. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 14 October 2008. Jump up ^ `` Our Banknotes : Commemorative Banknote ''. The Royal Bank of Scotland. Archived from the original on 15 October 2007. Retrieved 20 October 2008. Jump up ^ `` Robert Louis Stevenson School ''. stevenson-school.org. Retrieved 8 June 2015. Jump up ^ `` R.L. Stevenson Elementary School ''. Fridley Public Schools. Retrieved 26 January 2014. Jump up ^ `` R.L. Stevenson Elementary '', Burbank Unified School District. Retrieved 26 January 2014. Jump up ^ `` Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary ''. robertlouisstevensonschool.org. Retrieved 29 October 2016. Jump up ^ `` Robert Louis Stevenson SP ''. California Department of Parks and Recreation. Retrieved 18 July 2014. Jump up ^ `` saintdamienadvocates.org ''. saintdamienadvocates.org. Retrieved 8 June 2015. Jump up ^ Castle, Alan ( 2007 ). The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail ( 2nd ed. ). Cicerone. ISBN 978 - 1 - 85284 - 511 - 7. Jump up ^ McCracken, Edd ( 20 March 2011 ). `` Found : Louis Stevenson 's missing masterpiece ''. Sunday Herald. Glasgow. Retrieved 20 March 2011. Jump up ^ Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales, Robert Louis Stevenson. Oxford World 's Classics. Secondary literature Graham Balfour, The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, London : Methuen, 1901 John Jay Chapman `` Robert Louis Stevenson '', Emerson, and Other Essays. New York : AMS Press, 1969, ISBN 0 - 404 - 00619 - 1 ( reprinted from the edition of 1899 ) David Daiches, `` Robert Louis Stevenson and his World '', London : Thames and Hudson, 1973, ISBN 0 - 500 - 13045 - 0 J.C. Furnas, Voyage to Windward : The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, London : Faber and Faber, 1952 Claire Harman, Robert Louis Stevenson : A Biography, HarperCollins, ISBN 0 - 00 - 711321 - 8 ( reviewed by Matthew Sturgis in The Times Literary Supplement, 11 March 2005, page 8 ) James Pope - Hennessy, Robert Louis Stevenson -- A Biography, London : Cape, 1974, ISBN 0 - 224 - 01007 - 7 Rosaline Masson, Robert Louis Stevenson. London : The People 's Books, 1912 Rosaline Masson, The life of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh & London : W. & R. Chambers, 1923 Rosaline Masson ( editor ), I can remember Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh & London : W. & R. Chambers, 1923 Ernest Mehew, `` Robert Louis Stevenson '', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford : OUP, 2004. Retrieved 29 September 2008 Roland Paxton, `` Stevenson, Thomas ( 1818 -- 1887 ) '', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford : OUP, 2004. Retrieved 11 October 2008 Eve Blantyre Simpson, Robert Louis Stevenson 's Edinburgh Days, London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1898 Eve Blantyre Simpson, The Robert Louis Stevenson Originals, ( With illustrations and facsimiles ), London& Edinburgh : T.N. Foulis, 1912 Stephen, Leslie ( 1902 ). `` Robert Louis Stevenson ''. Studies of a Biographer. 4. London : Duckworth & Co. pp. 206 -- 246. 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Ballantyne Lucy Lyttelton Cameron Lewis Carroll Christabel Rose Coleridge Maria Edgeworth Evelyn Everett - Green Juliana Horatia Ewing Frederic W. Farrar G.E. Farrow Agnes Giberne Anna Maria Hall L.T. Meade G.A. Henty Frances Hodgson Burnett Thomas Hughes Richard Jefferies Charles Kingsley W.H.G. Kingston Rudyard Kipling Andrew Lang Frederick Marryat George MacDonald Mary Louisa Molesworth Kirk Munroe E. Nesbit Beatrix Potter William Brighty Rands Talbot Baines Reed Elizabeth Missing Sewell Anna Sewell Mary Martha Sherwood Flora Annie Steel Robert Louis Stevenson Hesba Stretton Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna Charlotte Maria Tucker Charlotte Mary Yonge Illustrators Eleanor Vere Boyle Gordon Browne Randolph Caldecott Thomas Crane Walter Crane George Cruikshank Thomas Dalziel ( engraver ) Richard Doyle H.H. Emmerson Edmund Evans ( engraver ) Kate Greenaway Sydney Prior Hall Edward Lear Harold Robert Millar Arthur Rackham J.G. 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Frederick Warne & Co Scots makars c. 1370 -- c. 1460 John Barbour Huchoun James I Sir Gilbert Hay Andrew of Wyntoun Richard Holland c. 1460 -- c. 1560 Blind Hary Robert Henryson Walter Kennedy William Dunbar Gavin Douglas David Lyndsay William Stewart c. 1560 -- 17th century Alexander Scott Alexander Montgomerie James VI Castalian Band William Fowler Elizabeth Melville Alexander Hume Robert Sempill Robert Sempill the younger Francis Sempill 18th century -- 20th century Allan Ramsay Robert Fergusson Robert Burns Robert Louis Stevenson Alicia Ann Spottiswoode William Soutar Robert Garioch Sydney Goodsir Smith Tom Scott George Campbell Hay Alexander Scott Hamish Henderson William Neill Official appointment ( from 2004 ) Edwin Morgan Liz Lochhead Jackie Kay Associated subjects Robert Louis Stevenson 's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Character Adaptations Films Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1908 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1912 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1913 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1920 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1920 ) The Head of Janus ( 1920 ) Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde ( 1925 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1931 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1941 ) The Son of Dr. Jekyll ( 1951 ) Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1953 ) The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll ( 1957 ) The Doctor 's Horrible Experiment ( 1959 ) The Ugly Duckling ( 1959 ) My Friend, Dr. Jekyll ( 1960 ) The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll ( 1960 ) The Nutty Professor ( 1963 ) Karutha Rathrikal ( 1967 ) Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde ( 1971 ) I, Monster ( 1971 ) Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo ( 1972 ) Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde ( 1976 ) Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot ( 1979 ) Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype ( 1980 ) Docteur Jekyll et les femmes ( 1981 ) Chehre Pe Chehra ( 1981 ) Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again ( 1982 ) Edge of Sanity ( 1989 ) Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde ( 1995 ) Mary Reilly ( 1996 ) The Nutty Professor ( 1996 ) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ( 2003 ) Van Helsing ( 2004 ) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 2006 ) The Mummy ( 2017 ) Animation The Impatient Patient ( 1942 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse ( 1947 ) Motor Mania ( 1950 ) Dr. Jerkyl 's Hide ( 1954 ) Hyde and Hare ( 1955 ) Hyde and Go Tweet ( 1960 ) Mad Monster Party ? ( 1967 ) Mad Mad Mad Monsters ( 1972 ) The Pagemaster ( 1994 ) The Strange Case of Dr. Jiggle and Mr. Sly ( 2004 ) Van Helsing : The London Assignment ( 2004 ) The Monster of Phineas - n - Ferbenstein ( 2008 ) Hotel Transylvania ( 2012 ) Video games Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1988 ) Jekyll and Hyde ( 2001 ) Van Helsing ( 2004 ) Music `` Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive '' ( 1983 ) `` Bubba Hyde '' ( 1995 ) Jekyll and Hyde ( 2003 ) Jekyll & Hyde en Español ( 2004 ) Theatre Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1887 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1888 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Or a Mis - Spent Life ( 1897 ) Jekyll & Hyde ( 1990 ) Television Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde ( 1995 -- 1998 ) Jekyll ( 2007 ) Once Upon a Time ( 2011 -- present ) Penny Dreadful ( 2014 -- 2016 ) Jekyll and Hyde ( 2015 ) Comics Mister Hyde ( introduced 1963 ) Batman : Two Faces ( 1998 ) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ( 1999 -- present ) Novels The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner ( 1824 ) Knots and Crosses ( 1987 ) Mary Reilly ( 1990 ) Radio Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1932 ) Robert Louis Stevenson 's Treasure Island Characters Billy Bones Captain Alexander Smollett Captain Flint Ben Gunn Israel Hands Jim Hawkins Dr. Livesey Long John Silver Squire Trelawney Films Treasure Island ( 1918 ) Treasure Island ( 1920 ) Treasure Island ( 1934 ) The Secret of Treasure Island ( 1938 ) Treasure Island ( 1950 ) Long John Silver ( 1954 ) Return to Treasure Island ( 1954 ) Animal Treasure Island ( 1971 ) Treasure Island ( 1972, live - action ) Treasure Island ( 1972, animated ) The Treasure Planet ( 1982 ) Treasure Island ( 1982 ) Treasure Island ( 1985 ) Treasure Island ( 1987 ) Treasure Island ( 1988 ) Treasure Island ( 1990 ) Muppet Treasure Island ( 1996 ) Treasure Island ( 1999 ) Treasure Planet ( 2002 ) Pirates of Treasure Island ( 2006 ) Hawkins and Silver ( TBA ) Television The Adventures of Long John Silver ( 1958 ) Treasure Island ( 1977 ) Treasure Island ( 1978 ) Return to Treasure Island ( 1986 ) Treasure Island in Outer Space ( 1987 ) The Legends of Treasure Island ( 1993 ) Treasure Island ( 2012 ) Black Sails ( 2014 ) Video games Pirate Adventure ( 1978 ) Treasure Island ( 1984 ) Treasure Planet : Battle at Procyon ( 2002 ) Destination Treasure Island ( 2007 ) Other adaptations Pieces of Eight ( musical ) Godspeed ( novel ) The Resurrection Casket ( novel ) Related Black Spot Legend of the Cybermen Silver `` Shiver my timbers '' `` Dead Man 's Chest '' Robert Louis Stevenson 's Kidnapped Films Kidnapped ( 1917 ) Kidnapped ( 1938 ) Kidnapped ( 1948 ) Kidnapped ( 1960 ) Kidnapped ( 1971 ) Kidnapped ( 1986 ) Kidnapped ( 1995 ) Other Kidnapped ( 2005 mini series ) Kidnapped ( graphic novel ) Catriona Appin Murder Parcel of Rogues VIAF : 95207986 LCCN : n78088964 ISNI : 0000 0001 2283 1567 GND : 118753711 SELIBR : 94215 SUDOC : 027149102 BNF : cb11925554s ( data ) BIBSYS : 90066540 ULAN : 500026199 MusicBrainz : c7379dd2 - 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Question: when did robert louis stevenson write treasure island
Answer: 1881