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37 unusual facts about Robert Louis Stevenson


1889 Apia cyclone

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote an account of this disaster, differing from this article in A footnote to history.

Albert Bridge, Glasgow

A timber footbridge replaced it in 1803, and in 1834 a masonry arch bridge was designed by Robert Stevenson, grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Arleen Whelan

After her screen test the studio cast Whelan as the female lead in a film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped (1938).

Black bun

The term "black bun" was first recorded in 1898, and may have been a result of Robert Louis Stevenson referring to the cake as "a black substance inimical to life".

Bruce Porter

Porter's other accomplishments included designing the Robert Louis Stevenson monument in Portsmouth Square in San Francisco.

Cheylard-l'Évêque

Sagnerousse, which is located on the territory of the commune of Cheylard-l'Évêque, and the village of Cheylard-l'Évêque proper were visited by Robert Louis Stevenson on September 24 and 25, 1878, respectively.

Climax!

The only other episode of Climax! available on DVD is Gore Vidal's adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, retitled on Climax! as "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde".

Cottage Grove, Houston

named after Robert Louis Stevenson The school opened in 1915 as Cottage Grove High School.

Cuisine of Antebellum America

As some of the privateers became pirates and buccaneers, their fondness for rum remained, the association between the two only being strengthened by literary works such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

David Alan Stevenson

His cousin was Robert Louis Stevenson, and grandfather was Robert Stevenson.

Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde

The film itself is both a spoof of the previous Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde films (e.g. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 film) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912 film)) and the well-famed novel by Robert Louis Stevenson Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Duncan Dhu

The name Duncan Dhu comes from the book Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, in which there is a character named Duncan Dhu, who is a lover of music.

Ewen MacPherson of Cluny

He was made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson, whose fictional hero David Balfour meets Cluny in one of his hiding places, the so-called "Cluny's Cage".

Herman Portocarero

In his Diplomacy & Adventure memoir, he states that his writer's credo is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's, in the sense that you have to live first to have stories to tell.

Ignacio Padilla

From an early age, Padilla notes that he was drawn to writing, and as he grew older, he became immersed in the literary works of James Joyce, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Robert Louis Stevenson, whose works often centered on the theme of human identity.

Italian classical music

Yet, it was inevitable that Italian composers would respond to the fading values of Romanticism and the cynicism provoked in many European artistic quarters by such things as World War I and such cultural/scientific phenomena as psychoanalysis in which—at least according to Robert Louis Stevenson—"all men have secret thoughts that would shame hell."

Le Pont-de-Montvert

Robert Louis Stevenson passed through Pont-de-Montvert on the ramble narrated in his Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879), one of the first books to present hiking and camping as recreational activities.

Leigh Scott

Scott also directed and appeared in Pirates of Treasure Island, an adaptation of the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, in which Scott appeared as Ben Gunn.

Michael Ande

Much attention, he found in the role of Jim Hawkins on Television the Treasure Island (1966) on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, which was broadcast on Christmas 1966 for the first time.

Michael O. Varhola

Varhola published and wrote introductions to editions of H.G. Wells' Little Wars (2004) and Floor Games (2006) and Robert Louis Stevenson's Stevenson at Play.

North Bay Village, Florida

Treasure Island, whose street names were drawn from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, is a mixture of single-family dwellings on the westerly end and multi-family dwellings on the eastern end.

Notes on the Port of St. Francis

Notes on the Port of St. Francis is a 1951 short impressionistic documentary film on San Francisco, directed by Frank Stauffacher, and with narration written by Robert Louis Stevenson (1882) and read by Vincent Price.

Pigtail

Robert Louis Stevenson mentions "pigtail" referring to hair and then to "pigtail tobacco" in the first and fourth chapters of Treasure Island, respectively.

Pile of Skulls

The lyrics of "Treasure Island" are based on the book of the same title, by 19th century author Robert Louis Stevenson.

Pilrig

One inhabitant of the house was Margaret Balfour, mother of Robert Louis Stevenson (fully, Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson, with Lewis later changed to Louis).

Reynaldo Hahn

While at the front he composed a song cycle based on poems by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Richard Mansfield

He appeared successfully in an original play, Prince Karl and in several plays adapted from well-known stories, and his 1887 rendering of the title-characters in T. Russell Sullivan's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for Palmer's company at Madison Square Theatre, only a year after publication of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella of the same name, created a profound impression.

Samoan crisis

Robert Louis Stevenson witnessed the storm and its aftermath at Apia and later wrote about what he saw.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Judging from his works, major influences on his style were Robert Louis Stevenson, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and H. G. Wells.

Stevenson Memorial

Stevenson Memorial is a 1903 oil painting by the American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer, intended to commemorate the writer Robert Louis Stevenson.

Stevenson screen

It was designed by Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887), a British civil engineer and father of the author Robert Louis Stevenson.

Swanston, Edinburgh

Robert Louis Stevenson spent several summers here in the 1870s, as a result of his father taking out a lease for Swanston Cottage (on a spur road to the NW of the village) from 1867 to 1880.

Tafahi

It is speculated by Swiss Walter Hurni and described by the Swiss author Alex Capus, that Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island, found the Treasure of Lima around 1890 on this island while living on the nearby island of Upolu and which made him and his family very rich.

The Bibelot

The Bibelot featured the lesser known works of writers such as Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Morris, Arthur Symons, D. G. Rossetti, Austin Dobson, J. A. Symonds, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, and Fiona MacLeod.

The Son of Dr. Jekyll

The film is a continuation of Robert Louis Stevenson's original classic novel Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, although bearing some differences to the horror classic.

The Well-Worn Lock

The episode opens with a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson, and features several actors who would reappear in unrelated roles in both Millennium and its sister series The X-Files.

Westbourne, Dorset

Robert Louis Stevenson was Westbourne's most famous resident, who lived at 'Skerryvore' on the West Cliff between 1885 and 1887.


Allen Hutchinson

In 1888, he moved to Hawaii, where he modeled busts of King Kalākaua, Robert Louis Stevenson, and president of the Republic of Hawaii Sanford B. Dole.

Captain Alexander Smollett

Captain Alexander Smollett is the captain of the schooner Hispaniola in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island.

Frances Brundage

In addition to ephemera, Brundage illustrated children's classics such as the novels of Louisa May Alcott, Johanna Spyri, and Robert Louis Stevenson, and traditional literary collections such as The Arabian Nights and the stories of King Arthur and Robin Hood.

Frank McLynn

He is noted for critically acclaimed biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Carl Jung, Richard Francis Burton and Henry Morton Stanley.

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

Robert Louis Stevenson admired Fouqué's story "The Bottle Imp" and wrote his own version (The Bottle Imp)

Giroflé-Girofla

Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson saw the opera and fondly recalled it in his travel book Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879).

Harold Robert Millar

He illustrated books by a wide range of British authors of his time, including Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling.

J. C. Furnas

In addition to these books, he wrote several books dealing with the South Pacific, including a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as several novels.

José María Álvarez

He has also translated into Spanish the work of, among others, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare, François Villon, the complete works of Constantine P. Cavafy, and the poems from the years of madness of Friedrich Hölderlin.

Little Bealings

The Grove, an old house and estate in the village, was the childhood home of Sidney Colvin, the curator, critic, and great friend of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Longman's Magazine

Longman's focused on fiction, debuting work by James Payn, Margaret Oliphant, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Edith Nesbit, Frank Anstey, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Walter Besant, and others.

Memories and Portraits

Memories and Portraits is a collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1887.

Piracy in the British Virgin Islands

The Blackbeard myth was perpetuated in the BVI when Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his now famous book "Treasure Island".

S. S. McClure

McClure's Magazine published influential pieces by respected journalists and authors including Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Burton J. Hendrick, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Willa Cather, and Lincoln Steffens.

Tusitala

Tusitala was the name used by the Samoan people for Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived the last four years of his life in Samoa and is buried on Mount Vaea.

Underwoods

Underwoods is a collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1887.