If biographies seldom seem as deeply satisfying as fiction, as intense and intimate, it is because biographers cannot actually enter a character’s mind and reveal what no one but the character knows, ...

If Robert Louis Stevenson was unhappy with the direction one of his books was headed, the impassioned Scotsman had a habit of tossing it into the nearest fire. This is precisely what happened with the ...

“Stevenson had from the beginning an idea of literary composition as a fine art.” A profile of the author of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other classics. Stevenson was one of the happy ...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their ...

Since his death, aged 44, in 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson has had a “distinctly mixed” literary reputation, said Andrew Motion in The New Statesman. To many modernists, and especially the Bloomsbury ...

Mother Marianne Cope is the patron of lepers, outcasts, those with HIV/AIDS, and the Hawaiian Islands. Her feast day is Jan. 23. LEFT: Robert Louis Stevenson in 1893, by Henry Walter Barnett ...

The major novels of Robert Louis Stevenson contain few female characters—in “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” the sole adult feminine presence is a house maid—but there is no doubt about the ...

The most limited among the variations, the Limited Edition 8 features an 18-karat gold cap dramatically hand engraved with a skull set with black sapphires. Several memorable lines from Treasure ...