Robert Louis Stevenson
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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He was born November 13, 1850, Edinburg, Scotland, and died December 3, 1894, Vailima, Samoa.
MORE FACTS ABOUT ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON:
- During college, he rebelled against his parents' religion, and became a liberal bohemian who disagreed with the supposed cruelties and hypocrisies done by the bourgeois.
- While visiting a cousin, he met two of his closest friends, Sidney Colvin and Fanny Sitwell, who later married each other.
- Robert was an only child, and it was very early in his life that he showed a desire to write.
His father, Thomas Stevenson, invented the Stevenson Screen, which was used to house meteorological thermometers.
EVEN MORE FACTS ABOUT ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON:
- His wife was eleven years older than him.
- When he was young he had a lung disease that later became tuberculosis. Some of his works were even written from a sickbed.
- He was married in Oakland, California, 1880.
- His wife, Fanny Osbourne, was still married when they first met, which horrified his parents.
