robert-louis-stevenson

By Martiprados

  • Baptized

  • Go to the school for the first time

  • Starts attending Edinburgh Academy (for 15 months

    Starts attending Edinburgh Academy (for 15 months

  • Leaves Burlington Lodge Academy; stays in London with his father

    Leaves Burlington Lodge Academy; stays in London with his father

  • Starts school at Robert Thomson’s private school in Frederick Street (until 1867

    Starts school at Robert Thomson’s private school in Frederick Street (until 1867

  • Starts studying at Edinburgh University

  • Attends first meeting of the Speculative Society

    Attends first meeting of the Speculative Society

  • Leaves for Erraid and stays there for three weeks as part of training for lighthouse engineering

    Leaves for Erraid and stays there for three weeks as part of training for lighthouse engineering

  • Begins studying law at Edinburgh University

  • Visit the cousin

    Visits cousin Maud Balfour at Cockfield Rectory, Suffolk (arrives 26 July) and stays until the end of August. Here, he meets Frances Sitwell and Sidney Colvin

  • Go to France

    Travels to Mentone, France, under doctor’s orders, staying until the end of March 1874

  • Return Edimburg

  • Public (Ordered South) and (Victor Hugo's Romances)

    Publishes “Ordered South” in Macmillan’s Magazine Publishes “Victor Hugo’s Romances” in Cornhill Magazine

  • Pass the final examination

    Passes the final examination for the Scottish Bar. End of his studies at Edinburgh University

  • Travel

    Walking tour of Ayr, Maybole, Girvan, Ballantrae, Stranraer, Glenluce, and Wigton (described in “A Winter’s Walk in Carrick and Galloway” [1896])

  • Publishes “On Falling in Love” in the Cornhill

  • Return

    Fanny returns with her children to her husband, Sam Osbourne, in California

  • Published

    The Story of a Lie” is published in the New Quarterly Review

  • Liverpool

    Fanny and Lloyd arrive in Liverpool from New York where his parents meet Fanny for the first time

  • Moves to Bournemouth where stays until August 1887

  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    Completes writing Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which he began at the end of September

  • New York

    Arrives in New York, staying with his family at the Hotel Victoria as the guest of Charles Fairfield
    8: To Newport, guest of Charles Fairfield
    19: Back in New York, at the Hotel St. Stephen (46-52 East 11th Street)
    30: Leaves for Saranac Lake

  • RLS and W.E.

    RLS and W.E. Henley quarrel about Fanny’s short story “The Nixie”. Henley accuses Fanny of plagiarizing the story from Katharine de Mattos (RLS’s cousin and Bob Stevenson’s sister). RLS takes Fanny’s side and the friendship between RLS and Henley never fully recovers
    10: Makes a deal with publisher S.S. McClure. He will publish the travel articles RLS writes on his journey in the South Seas
    25: Serialization of The Black Arrow begins in the Philadelphia Press
    26: Fanny leaves for California

  • Isle of Voices

    Isle of Voices” begins serialization in National Observer
    18: Leaves Apia on the S.S. Mariposa with Fanny and Belle
    24: Arrives in Auckland
    28: Arrives in Sydney (stays at the Oxford Hotel)

  • died

    Dies of a cerebral hemorrhage
    Buried on the summit of Mount Vaea on Upolu, Samoa