List of Biographies 

Aldington, Richard (1957). Portrait of a Rebel. London: Evans Brothers.
Anonymous (1900). 'Stevenson Unwhitewashed'. Atlantic Monthly (March 1900).
Arnold, William Harris (1922). 'My Stevensons'. Scribners (January 1922).
Balfour Graham (1901). The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Methuen & Co. [indispensable source]
Barrie, J.M. (1889). An Edinburgh Eleven.Pencil Portraits from College Life. London/New York: ***/Lovell, Coryell & Co.
Bathurst, Bella (1999). The Lighthouse Stevensons. London: HarperCollins
Bell, Gavin (1994). In Search of Tusitala: Travels in the Pacific After Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Picador.
Bell, Ian (1992). Robert Louis Stevenson: Dreams of Exile. Edinburgh/NY: Mainstream/Henry Holt & Co.
Bevan, Bryan (1993). Robert Louis Stevenson: Poet and Teller of Tales. New York: St. Martin's Press (ISBN: 0312103026), $39.95.['Bevan's volume finds its strength in his elucidation of Stevenson's final, difficult years in the South Seas', YWES]
Binding, Paul (1974). Robert Louis Stevenson. Oxford: Oxford University Press [illustrated by Robin Jaques]
Black, Margaret Moyes (1898). Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier
Brown, George E. (1919). A Book of R.L.S. London: Methuen & Co.
Calder, Jenni (1980). RLS: A Life Study. London: Hamish Hamilton.
Calder, Jenni (1980). The Robert Louis Stevenson Companion. London: Paul Harris Publishing
Carpenter, Angelica Shirley & Jean Shirley (1997). Robert Louis Stevenson: Finding Treasure Island. Minneapolis: Lemer Publications. [144 pp.].
Carré, Jean-Marie (1929). La vie de Robert Louis Stevenson. Paris: Gallimard
Carré, Jean-Marie (1931). The Frail Warrior. ***: Noel Douglas [prob. transl. of the former]
Chesterton, G. K. (1927). Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Hodder & Stoughton
Cohen, Edward H. (1974). The Henley-Stevenson Quarrel. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida.
Colvin, Sidney (1924). Robert Louis Stevenson: His Work And Personality. London: Hodder & Stoughton. [Contributions from Gosse, Munro, Lowe, Crockett, Osbourne etc.; a revised version of the 'Bookman Extra Number' (1913) dedicated to RLS]
Colvin, Sir Sidney (1921). Memories and Notes of Persons and Places. London: Edward Arnold & Co.
Cooper, Lettice (1947). Robert Louis Stevenson. ***: Arthur Barker; also Denver: Alan Swallow, 1948.
Copeland, Charles Townsend (1895). 'Robert Louis Stevenson'. Atlantic Monthly (April 1895).
Daiches, David (1947). Robert Louis Stevenson. Norfolk, Conn./Glasgow: New Directions Books/William Maclellan
Daiches, David (1973). Robert Louis Stevenson and his World. London: Thames & Hudson.
Dalglish, Doris (1937). The Presbyterian Pirate: A Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Oxford University Press
Dark, Sidney (1932). Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Hodder & Stoughton
Davies, Hunter (1997). The Teller of Tales: In Search of Robert Louis Stevenson. ***: Interlink (ISBN: 156656204X)
Elwin, Malcolm (1950). The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson. London/NY: Macdonald/Russel & Russel.
Fitzpatrick, Elayne Wareing (1997, 2nd ed). A Quixotic Companionship: Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson. Monterey: Old Monterey Preservation Society. [104 pp., illustrated].
Furnas, J.C. (1952). Voyage to Windward: the Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. New York/London: William Sloane/Faber & Faber. [often considered the best biography to date]
Gasson, Roy (ed.) (1977). The Illustrated Robert Louis Stevenson. ***: Jupiter Books
Gherman, Beverly (1996). Robert Louis Stevenson: Teller of Tales. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster (ISBN: 0689319851), $16.00. [Biography focusing on the events of the life, ill. with photographs, 136pp; designed for readers 8-12 years]
Gosse, Edmund (1913). Critical Kit-Kats ('Robert Louis Stevenson: Personal Memories'). London: ***
Gwynn, Stephen (1939). Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Macmillan & Co.
Hamilton, Clayton (1907). On the Trail of Stevenson. London/***: ***/Doubleday, Page & Company
Hammerton, J. A. (1910). Stevensoniana. An anecdotal life and appreciation of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh: John Grant.
Hammond, J.R. (1997). A Robert Louis Stevenson Chronology. London: Macmillan Press Ltd
Hellman, George S. (1922). 'The Stevenson Myth'. Century ( December 1922).
Hellman, George (1925). The True Stevenson: a Study in Clarification. Boston: Little. Brown & Co.
Hellman, George S. (1936). 'Robert Louis Stevenson and the Streetwalker'. American Mercury (July 1936).
Henley, W. E. (1901). 'R.L.S.'. Pall Mall Magazine (Dec 1901).
Holland, Clive (1934). 'Robert Louis Stevenson at Bournemouth.' . Chambers Journal (December 1934).
Jacquette, Rodolphe (1980). Tusitala: ou, La vie aventureuse de Robert-Louis Stevenson. Paris : Seghers.
James, Henry (1914). Notes on Novelists (' Robert Louis Stevenson'). ***: ***
Japp, Alexander Hay (1905). Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, An Estimate and a Memorial. London: Clifford's Inn, T. Werner Laurie.
Knight, Alanna (1974). The Passionate Kindness. ****: Milton House. Reprinted Glasgow: Molendinar Press, 1980.
Knight, Alanna (1986). R.L.S. in the South Seas: An Intimate Photographic Record. Edinburgh/***: Mainstream/Paragon House (ISBN: 0913729329), $18.95.
Lapierre, Alexandra (1993). Fanny Stevenson. Paris: Robert Lafont. Engl, transl.: Fanny Stevenson: Muse, Adventuress & Romantic Enigma. ***: Fourth Estate, 1995.
Le Bris, Michel (1994). Robert Louis Stevenson. Les années bohémiennes 1850/1880. Paris: Nil. [first volume of two]
Low , Will (1908). A Chronicle of Friendships ('Enter R. L. Stevenson'). London: ***
Mackay, Eneas (1929). Robert Louis Stevenson and the Scottish Highlanders. Stirling: David B. Morris
Mackay, Margaret (1968). The Violent Friend: The Story of Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: Doubleday & Co. Inc. Abridged ed.: London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1970.
Mackenzie, Compton (1968). Robert Louis Stevenson. London: ***
Mair, Craig (1978). A Star for Seamen: The Stevenson Family of Engineers. London: John Murray
Masson, Rosaline (1922). I Can Remember Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh/London: Chambers.
Masson, Rosaline (1923). Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh/London: Chambers
McLaren, Moray (1950). Stevenson and Edinburgh. London: Chapman & Hall
McLynn, Frank (1993). Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Hutchinson.
Moors, Harry J. (1910). With Stevenson in Samoa. Boston/London: Small, Maynard & Co./ *** [memoir by Stevenson's friend on Samoa; includes 47 photographs]
Muir, Edwin (1931). 'Robert Louis Stevenson.' . Modern Scot (Autumn 1931).
Murphy, Jim (1993). Across America on an Emigrant Train. ***: Clarion Books (ISBN 0395633907), $17.00. [exerpts from Stevenson's The Amateur Emigrant and Across the Plains interwoven with maps, photographs and other background material about the building and early days of the railroads]
Neider, Charles (ed.) (1956). Fanny and Robert Stevenson: Our Samoan Adventure. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. [intro.; texts by S and Fanny S, incl F's diary 1890-3]
Osborne, Lloyd (1924). An Intimate Portrait of R.L.S. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [warmly affectionate biographical sketches by S's stepson; included as prefaces to the Tusitala and Skerryvore Editions]
Pope-Hennessy, James (1974). Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Jonathan Cape
Raleigh, Walter (1895). Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Edward Arnold
Rankin, Nick (1987). Dead Man's Chest: Travels after R.L.S. London: Faber.
Rice, Edward (1971). Journey to Upolu; Robert Louis Stevenson, Victorian Rebel. New York, Dodd, Mead
Rice, Richard Ashley (1916). Robert Louis Stevenson: How to Know Him. Indianapolis: Boobs-Merrill Co.
Ricklefs, Roger (1963). The Mind of Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: Thomas Yoseloff
Sanchez, Nellie Van de Grift (1920). The Life of Mrs R.L. Stevenson. New York/London: Charles Scribner's Sons/*** [favourable portrait by Fanny's sister; contains details of her early life not found elsewhere]
Simpson, Eve Blantyre (1898). Robert Louis Stevenson's Edinburgh Days. London: Hooder & Stoughton.
Simpson, Eve Blantyre (1912). The Robert Louis Stevenson Originals. Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis
Stern, G.B.(1952). Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Longmans, Green & Co.
Steuart, John A. (1924). Robert Louis Stevenson: A Critical Biography, 2 vols. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
Steuart, John A. (1927). The Cap of Youth, being the love romance of Robert Louis Stevenson. Philadelphia/London: J.B. Lippincott Co./Sampson, Low & Co
Stevenson, Fanny (1915). The Cruise of the Janet Nichol. London/New York: ***/Charles Scribner's Sons [the diary on which this is based is in the Silverado Museum]
Stevenson, Margaret Isabella (1922). Stevenson's Baby Book. San Francisco: printed for John Howell by John Henry Nash [record of early sayings and doings]
Stevenson, Margaret Isabella (ed. & arranged by Marie Clothilde Balfour) (1906). Letters from Samoa: 1891-1895. New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons.
Stevenson, Margaret Isabella (ed. Marie Clothilde Balfour) (1903). From Saranac to the Marquesas and Beyond. London: Methuen. [leters written to her sister Jane Whyte Balfour 1887-8]
Strong, Isobel & Lloyd Osbourne (1902). Memories of Vailima. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (1903) London: Archibald Constable & Co [the US edition is 228 pp. with 31 b&w photographs; the UK edition that I have seen is 151 pp and with only an engraved portrait frontispiece]
Strong, Isobel (1911). Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Cassell (Little Books on Great Writers) [illustr.; designed for children]
Strong, Isobel (1920). Robert Louis Stevenson. Saranac Lake, NY: Stevenson Society of America.
Strong, Isobel (1937). This Life I've Loved. London/New York: Longman, Green/ Charles Scribner's Sons ['gossipy and attractive memoirs' by S's stepdaughter]
Terry, R. C. (ed.) (1996). Robert Louis Stevenson: Interviews and Recollections. Iowa City: U Iowa P (ISBN 0877455120). $24.95. [50 recollections by his wife, stepson, mother, Frances Sitwell, Andrew Lang, Henry Adams and others]
Thompson, Francis (1959). The Real Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: University Publishers
Wallace, William (1900). 'The Life and Limitations of Stevenson'. Scottish Review (January 1900).
Wallace, William (1902). 'Scotland, Stevenson, and Mr Henley'. New Liberal Review (February 1902).
Watt, Francis (1913). R.L.S. London/New York: Methuen & Co. Ltd/Macmillan & Co.

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