Chronology
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About
Robert Louis Stevenson
1850 Robert Louis
Stevenson was born in Edinburgh
Approx
1855 Since his childhood, Stevenson
suffered from tuberculosis. He spent much of his youth bedridden. To amuse himself
before he could read, he would compose stories.
1866 At the age
of sixteen he produced a short historical tale
1867 he entered
Edinburgh University to study engineering. He had planned to follow in his
fathers footsteps. Instead, due to his poor health he studied law.
1871 published
his first article in The Edinburgh University Magazine
1873 Published
and article in The Portofolio
1875 he was
called to the Scottish bar
01/01/1876 Stevens travelled Throughout the Continent and High Scottland looking for a climate more suited to his delicate
health.
Approx
1878 While in France Stevenson
met Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne,
a married woman with two children, Belle and Lloyd.
1879 She returned
to the United States to get a divorce and Stevenson
followed her to California
1880 Stevenson married Frances Osbourne,
an American divorcée ten years his senior.
1881 Stevenson gained first fame with the romantic adventure
story Treasure Island, which appeared first serialized
in Young Folks (1881-82)
1883 The Silverado Squatters
1883 Treasure
Island, published as a novel
1884 He also conitinued to contributed to various periodicals, including
The Cornhill Magazine and Longman`s
Magazine, where his best-known article A Humble Remonstrance was
published
1885 A Child`s Garden Of Verses (was devoted to Alison Cunningham, who was Stevenson`s
nurse in his childhood)
1886 Kidnapped
(the story of David Balfour, his distant ancestor)
1886 Strange
Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mister Hyde
1888 The Black
Arrow (set in the era of the War of the Roses)
1889 Mster Of Ballantrae
Approx
1889 Stevenson lived with his
family in the South Seas, where he had purchased an estate in Vailima, Samoa.
1889 With his
stepson Lloyd Osbourne, Stevens
wrote The Wrong Box
1893 stevens wife, Fanny, suffered a mental breakdown
1893 Island
Nights` Entertainments (which contains his famous
story The Beach of Falesá)
1894 The
Ebb-Tide (which condemned the European colonial exploitation)
12/03/1894 Stevenson died of a brain haemorrhage on December 3, 1894,
in Vailima
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