Robert Louis Stevenson : interviews and recollections / edited by R.C. Terry.
Terry, R. C. (Reginald Charles), 1932-
1996
PR5493 .R64 1996 (Mapit)
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Title Robert Louis Stevenson : interviews and recollections / edited by R.C. Terry.
ISBN 0877455120
9780877455127
Imprint Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1996.
Language English
Description xxxi, 216, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Call Number PR5493 .R64 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification 828/.809
Summary "One hundred years after his death Robert Louis Stevenson is still revered as a master stylist and magnificent storyteller, the author of classics such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verses and other poems, elegant and macabre short stories, and such wonderful evocations of place and people as Travels with a Donkey and Our Samoan Adventure. In recent years there has been a wave of enthusiasm for the author of these works, with the publication of major biographies and collections of his letters." "Magic islands and journeys - real and imagined - are the focus of this fascinating volume, in which Stevenson is seen through the eyes of fifty witnesses from all over the world. The collection brings together the most memorable interviews and recollections from a wealth of material, portraying the life and times of one of the nineteenth century's most successful writers." "R. C. Terry has created a portrait of Stevenson through the eyes of key figures in his life, including his beloved Fanny Osbourne and his confidante, Frances Sitwell. From Andrew Lang to Henry Adams, from his mother, Margaret Stevenson, to his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, these evocative selections expand our view of the short life of a monumental writer."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Terry, R. C. (Reginald Charles), 1932-
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Stevenson Chronology
Smout's Favourite Occupation / Margaret Stevenson
Taste for Adventurous Tales / E. Blantyre Simpson
'Cummy, I Was Just Telling Myself a Story!' / Charles J. Guthrie
Playmate beyond Compare / Various
Quick and Bright but Somewhat Desultory Scholar / H.B. Baildon
I Have Seen a Young Poet / E.M. Sellar
Poseur, Prone to Exaggerate Himself, Even to Himself / Rosaline Masson
Very Worst Ten Minutes I Ever Experienced / Flora Masson
Delightfully and Fearlessly Boyish / Margaret Black
Edinburgh Ale and Cold Meat Pies / Charles Lowe
Wonderful Talker / George Lisle
I Do Not Remember an Ill-natured Remark / Charles J. Guthrie
As Restless and Questing as a Spaniel / Edmund Gosse
Sealed of the Tribe of Louis / Andrew Lang
Touch of the Elfin and Unearthly / Sidney Colvin
Best of All Good Times at Grez / Isobel Field
Industrious Idleness / Will Low
Study the Masters / Birge Harrison
Scotch Literary Mediocrity / Lloyd Osbourne
Silent and, Truth to Tell, Rather Dejected Youth / Alice Gordon
Submerged in Billows of Bedclothes / Charles Warren Stoddard
Look as of the Ancient Mariner / Alexander Japp
Rather Odd, Exotic, Theatrical Kind of Man / Harold Vallings
'You Must Never, Never Write Like That Again' / Adelaide Boodle
Visiting Skerryvore / William Archer / Charles Archer
'Looks Like a Sooercide, Don't He, Sir?' / William Sharp
Beside Himself with Anger / Lloyd Osbourne
Most Affectionate Observer / M.G. van Rensselaer / Jeanette L. Gilder
Inventing One Project After Another / S.S. McClure
Buffalo Coat and Indian Moccasins / Stephen Chalmers
Mannerly Stevenson / Charlotte Eaton
As Good a Listener as He was a Talker / Edmund Radcliffe Pears
Always Eager for Excitement / T.M. MacCallum
Everybody Felt Thoroughly at Home / H.J. Moors
Writings as Pure as Possible / Sydney Press
Queer Birds
Mighty Queer Ones Too / Henry Adams
Misspent Sunday / W.E. Clarke
Soul of a Peasant / Fanny Stevenson
Feast at Vailima / Marie Fraser
Patriarchal Relations / Various
Working Away Every Morning Like Steam-engines / Isobel Field
Barley-sugar Effigy of a Real Man / W.E. Henley
Whatever He Did He Did with His Whole Heart / Graham Balfour
Called Home / Margaret Stevenson.

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