The most comprehensive web resource dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson, designed for all: academics, school children and everybody interested in learning about RLS.

For even more detail about the life of Robert Louis Stevenson, you can read Lamplit, Vicious Fairy Land, a complete biography of RLS written by Jeremy Hodges and published exclusively as an …

Stevenson dedicated the poems to his nurse Cummy (Alison Cunningham), who cared for him during his many childhood illnesses. The collection includes some of Stevenson’s most …

The RLS Website is a freely available online resource dedicated to the life and works of Robert Louis Stevenson. The site makes Stevenson texts and information about his life and works …

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 made their way to Homburg, traveling via Peterborough, …

Chiasmus is a lesser-known but characteristic feature of Robert Louis Stevenson’s essays. Beginning with his earliest published essays Stevenson uses this rhetorical figure to draw …

He is particularly significant because of his biography on RLS, The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson (1901). While critics see this as a well-written and useful account of RLS’s life, the work has …

On this page you will find information about Robert Louis Stevenson’s travels to New York state. In particular, you will find details of his visits to New York City and Saranac Lake.

Read the Virtual Book Summary The Black Arrow: A Tale of Two Roses is set during the Wars of the Roses (1453-1487). These were a series of civil wars between the houses of Lancaster …

Robert Stevenson soon followed in his step-father’s professional footsteps, becoming his assistant. In 1791 he supervised the building of the Clyde Lighthouse on Little Cumbrae in the …