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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Stevenson, Robert Louis ___ 1850-1894 ___ British ___ writer BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, the only son of a prosperous engineer (working with lighthouses) and the daughter of a clergyman. He suffered tuberculosis while still young, and was looked after by an attentive nanny who told him many stories. When 16, his family published a pamphlet he had written called 'The Pentland Rising'. He studied engineering at Edinburgh University, and wrote a paper on lighthouses, but, thereafter, trained for the law while all the time writing essays and short stories. He spent some time travelling in his late 20s. One canoe tour of France and Belgium was written up as 'An Inland Voyage', and his diary of a walking tour was published as 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cervennes'. While in France he met Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne, a married woman with two children. They both went to the US, where she obtained a divorce, and they married in 1879. During a brief stay in Silverado with her, he wrote a journal which, back in England, he used for 'The Silverado Squatters'. Stevenson found fame in the early 1880s with 'Treasure Island', and other great books - such as 'Kidnapped' and 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' - followed. From the late 1880s, he lived with his family on an estate he had purchased at Vailima in Samoa. He died of a brain haemorrhage when relatively young. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1878 1880 ___ travel US France WEB TEXT LINKS The Silverado Squatters Travels with a Donkey ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS Huntington Library Silverado Museum ___ Silverado Journal SOME PUBLISHED TITLES Silverado Journal Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes May 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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