Stevenson admired Thomas Hardy but hated his novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde sold 40,000 copies in its first six months but by its immeasurable difference from life, which is designed and significant." The novel, which is a work of art, exists, not by its resemblances to life, which are forced and material. In his essay A Humble Remonstrance, Stevenson set out his theory of the novel, saying: "Life is monstrous, infinite, illogical, abrupt and poignant a work of art, in comparison, is neat, finite, self contained, rational, flowing, and emasculate. His works include ten songs written to his own poetry. Stevenson played the piano and flageolet and wrote more than 100 original musical compositions and arrangements, including solos, duets, trios and quartet.
A local dentist removed all his teeth and fitted him with false wooden replacements. He was lonely and in poor health and while in Tubbs Hotel he had trouble with a bleeding mouth and rotten teeth. When he was living in America in 1878 and pursuing the unhappily married Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne - a woman 11 years his senior - Stevenson lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Tom Bateman, Richard E Grant and Natalie Gumede are among the stars of Jekyll and Hyde, a 10-part ITV series When Stevenson first wrote Treasure Island, he submitted his stories under nom-de-plume of Captain George North to a children's periodical called Young Folks. He slipped from his perch on a ledge and was captured by a "bobby" and "ignominiously marched off to the Police Office". His cousin recalled that when he was watching a snowball fight between students and locals in the quadrangle of the University, Stevenson was "craning his neck too much in his keen enjoyment" and "overbalanced".
As a student at Edinburgh University he used to hang out at Rutherford’s Bar. At the age of six, he began dictating his first story, called A History of Moses, to his mother, Margaret.Īsa teenager he was a young dandy, whose habit of wearing a velveteen coat and wide-brimmed hat earned him the nickname 'Velvet Jacket.
His father was the Reverend Lewis Balfour. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, who was born in Edinburgh on November 13 1850, came from a long line of eminent lighthouse engineers. Martin Chilton looks at 10 strange facts about the Scottish author of the novel Jekyll and Hyde, who also wrote Treasure Island and Kidnapped. Robert Louis Stevenson was born on Novemand died on 3 December 1894, aged only 44.
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