Robert Louis Stevenson facts for kids

Robert Louis Stevenson
Born	Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson 13 November 1850 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	3 December 1894 (aged 44) Vailima, Samoa
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Scottish
Period	Victorian era
Spouse(s)	Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne
Children	Isobel Osbourne (stepdaughter) Lloyd Osbourne (stepson)
Relative(s)	Thomas Stevenson Margaret Isabella Balfour

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (Edinburgh, 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish writer. He wrote 13 novels. He also wrote short stories, poems, and travel books.

Stevenson is known for his books, Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. In 1857 Stevenson went to a school called Mr Henderson's School in India Street, Edinburgh. When poor health stopped him going to school, he had private tutors teaching him.

• Treasure Island (1883)
• A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
• Kidnapped (1886)
• The Black Arrow (1888)
• The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
• Island Nights' Entertainments (1893)

Images for kids

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  Daguerreotype portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson as a young child

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  Stevenson's childhood home in Heriot Row
  

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  Robert Louis Stevenson at the age of seven

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  The author, c. 1877

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  Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, c. 1876

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  Stevenson's "Cure Cottage" in Saranac Lake

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  Stevenson and King Kalākaua of Hawaii, c. 1889

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  The author with his wife and their household in Vailima, Samoa, c. 1892

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  Stevenson's birthday fete at Vailima, Nov. 1894

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  Stevenson's home at Vailima, Samoa showing him on the veranda c.1893

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  Burial on Mount Vaea in Samoa, 1894

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  Stevenson's tomb on Mt. Vaea, c. 1909

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  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  Head of RLS, Writer's Museum, Edinburgh

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  Statue of Robert Louis Stevenson as a child, outside Colinton Parish Church, Scotland

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  Illustration from Kidnapped. Caption: "Hoseason turned upon him with a flash" (chapter VII, " I Go to Sea in the Brig "Covenant" of Dysart ")

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  Photographic portrait, c. 1887

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  Platinum print, 1885, by Albert George Dew-Smith; from the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland

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  Stevenson paces in his dining room in an 1885 portrait by John Singer Sargent. His wife Fanny, seated in an Indian dress, is visible in the lower right corner.

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  Portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1887

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  Portrait by William Blake Richmond, 1886

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  Portrait by Girolamo Nerli, 1892