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Robert's mother intended him to join the ministry, so when he was a bit older she enrolled him in the school of a locally famous Glasgow linguist, a Mr Macintyre. But when Robert was 15, she remarried and the family moved to 1 Blair Street, [4] off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. Robert's new stepfather was Thomas Smith, a tinsmith, lamp maker, ingenious mechanic, and civil engineer, who had been appointed to the newly formed Northern Lighthouse Board in 1786. Callow, Philip (2001). Louis: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Constable. ISBN 0-09-480180-0. Hubbard, Tom (1996), "Debut at Antwerp: The Flanders Chapters of Robert Louis Stevenson's An Inland Voyage, in Hubbard, Tom (2022), Invitation to the Voyage: Scotland, Europe and Literature, Rymour, pp. 48 - 52, ISBN 9-781739-596002 Find sources: "Robert Louis Stevenson"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( November 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Liberty] has dutifully served Mammon; so that many things we were accustomed to admire as the benefits of freedom and common to all, were truly benefits of wealth, and took their value from our neighbour's poverty...Freedom to be desirable, involves kindness, wisdom, and all the virtues of the free; but the free man as we have seen him in action has been, as of yore, only the master of many helots; and the slaves are still ill-fed, ill-clad, ill-taught, ill-housed, insolently entreated, and driven to their mines and workshops by the lash of famine. [71]

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Roland Paxton, "Stevenson, Thomas (1818–1887)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: OUP, 2004. Retrieved 11 October 2008 Stevenson returned to Britain shortly after this first meeting, but Fanny apparently remained in his thoughts, and he wrote the essay "On falling in love" for The Cornhill Magazine. [48] They met again early in 1877 and became lovers. Stevenson spent much of the following year with her and her children in France. [49] In August 1878, she returned to San Francisco and Stevenson remained in Europe, making the walking trip that formed the basis for Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879). But he set off to join her in August 1879, aged 28, against the advice of his friends and without notifying his parents. He took a second-class passage on the steamship Devonia, in part to save money but also to learn how others travelled and to increase the adventure of the journey. [50] He then travelled overland by train from New York City to California. He later wrote about the experience in The Amateur Emigrant. It was a good experience for his writing, but it broke his health.a b O'Hagan, Andrew (2020). "Bournemouth". The London Review of Books. 42 (10). ISSN 0260-9592. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020 . Retrieved 4 November 2020. COAST LIGHT exhibiting photographers Coulson & Tennant / Leeming & Paterson will be in conversation with Ben Smith of photographer’s favourite podcast ‘A Small Voice’ The Granton Shore Station housed the families and keepers of various lighthouses. The houses are now privately owned. Trinity House Leith Farrell, Joseph. "Robert Louis Stevenson and his meeting with a princess in Hawaii". The National. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020 . Retrieved 6 May 2020.

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Prior to this in 1791 Stevenson held a similar position in the building of Clyde Lighthouse on Little Cumbrae in the River Clyde. This connection soon led to his adoption as Smith’s partner, which he enjoyed until his appointment as Sole Engineer in 1808. Smith was in fact Stevenson’s stepfather as his own father Alan, had died in 1774, and his mother had remarried to Thomas Smith. Memories of Vailima' by Isobel Strong & Lloyd Osbourne, Archibald Constable & Co: Westminster (1903) A street in Honolulu's Waikiki District, where Stevenson lived while in the Hawaiian Islands, was named after his Samoan moniker: Tusitala. [127] Samoa [ edit ] RLS Museum, Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson School". stevenson-school.org. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015 . Retrieved 8 June 2015. Stevenson's first published fiction, in London, 1877. Anonymous. Republished in 1982 by R. Swearingen.I love visiting Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh. There is always so much to see and do, and it is full of history. It is rich with lighthouse history too. I never seem to spend enough time in the city, as we are usually stopping en route to other destinations. But to do it justice, you really have to spend a few days there.