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Robert Louis Stevenson Adrigoye7

By Adrigoye7

  • Day of his birth

    Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburg, Scotland the 13 th November 1850

  • CHILDHOOD

    Beginning in September 1857 Stevenson attended Mr Henderson’s School , although for health reasons he could only participate in class for two hours a day . After a few weeks a bronchitis ended his regular school attendance and began to recieve private lessons

  • CHILDHOOD 2.0 and first book

    During his childhood he constantly wrote essays and stories . His father understood this well, since he himself had written in his spare time until his own father had told to stop this nonsense and go into business. Young Stevenson’s first historical book , Pentland Rising, which he wrote in the tradition of Sir Walter Scott’s novels, appeared in 1866 , edited by Andrew Elliot

  • YOUTH

    In 1867 Thomas Stevenson acquired a country house as a summer residence, Swanston Cottage, near Edinburgh. Over the years this house, located at the foot of the mountainous area of ​​Pentland Hills, became the frequent refuge of the future writer between the months of March and October

  • UNIVERSITY

    He entered the University of Edinburgh as a Nautical Engineering student. However, the choice of career was more influenced by his father, who was an engineer, than by his own liking. This led him to abandon engineering in pursuit of the study of law. In 1875 he began to practice law. He also did not have a brilliant career in this field, since his interest was concentrated in the study of the language

  • LITERARY WORK

    Before the appearance of the naturalistic or psychological novel, Stevenson vindicated the classic adventure story, in which the character of the characters is drawn in the action. His elegant and understated style and the nature of his stories and descriptions influenced writers of the 20th century as already cited above.

  • SOME OF HIS NOVELS

    Treasure Island (1883).
    Prince Otto (Prince Otto) (1885).
    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). Short novel.
    Kidnapped (1886) First part of the saga of the same name.
    The Black Arrow (The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses) (1888).
    The Lord of Ballantrae (The Master of Ballantrae) (1888).

  • DIED

    He died in 1894 of a brain hemorrhage, an hour after Stevenson finished dictating to Osbourne a paragraph from his most ambitious novel, Weir of Hermiston. A year earlier he had related in a letter: «For fourteen years I have not known a single day of health. I have written with hemorrhages, I have written sick, between rales of coughing, I have written with my head lurching ». His fondness for alcohol was known, which had led to various health problems.