#19thcentury — Public Fediverse posts

“This is the biography of an extraordinary family, an impossible sea & an engineering miracle”

Bella Bathurst’s THE LIGHTHOUSE STEVENSONS tells the story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors – four generations who designed & built the great lights around Scotland

https://bellabathurst.com/books/the-lighthouse-stevensons/

#Scottish #history #19thcentury #Victorian #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

“This is the biography of an extraordinary family, an impossible sea & an engineering miracle”

Bella Bathurst’s THE LIGHTHOUSE STEVENSONS tells the story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors – four generations who designed & built the great lights around Scotland

https://bellabathurst.com/books/the-lighthouse-stevensons/

#Scottish #history #19thcentury #Victorian #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

“This is the biography of an extraordinary family, an impossible sea & an engineering miracle”

Bella Bathurst’s THE LIGHTHOUSE STEVENSONS tells the story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors – four generations who designed & built the great lights around Scotland

https://bellabathurst.com/books/the-lighthouse-stevensons/

#Scottish #history #19thcentury #Victorian #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

“This is the biography of an extraordinary family, an impossible sea & an engineering miracle”

Bella Bathurst’s THE LIGHTHOUSE STEVENSONS tells the story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors – four generations who designed & built the great lights around Scotland

https://bellabathurst.com/books/the-lighthouse-stevensons/

#Scottish #history #19thcentury #Victorian #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

Say not of me that weakly I declined
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit…

—Robert Louis Stevenson’s apologia for deserting the family trade of lighthouse-building & taking up the pen, instead

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson #poem #poetry

Say not of me that weakly I declined
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit…

—Robert Louis Stevenson’s apologia for deserting the family trade of lighthouse-building & taking up the pen, instead

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson #poem #poetry

Say not of me that weakly I declined
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit…

—Robert Louis Stevenson’s apologia for deserting the family trade of lighthouse-building & taking up the pen, instead

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson #poem #poetry

Say not of me that weakly I declined
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit…

—Robert Louis Stevenson’s apologia for deserting the family trade of lighthouse-building & taking up the pen, instead

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson #poem #poetry

“I have often thought that to find a family to compare with ours in the promise of immortal memory, we must go back to the Egyptian Pharaohs…”

—From RLS’s MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF (privately published, Philadelphia 1912) – online via the Hathi Trust

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t7mp5z00p&view=1up&seq=9

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

“I have often thought that to find a family to compare with ours in the promise of immortal memory, we must go back to the Egyptian Pharaohs…”

—From RLS’s MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF (privately published, Philadelphia 1912) – online via the Hathi Trust

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t7mp5z00p&view=1up&seq=9

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

“I have often thought that to find a family to compare with ours in the promise of immortal memory, we must go back to the Egyptian Pharaohs…”

—From RLS’s MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF (privately published, Philadelphia 1912) – online via the Hathi Trust

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t7mp5z00p&view=1up&seq=9

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

“I have often thought that to find a family to compare with ours in the promise of immortal memory, we must go back to the Egyptian Pharaohs…”

—From RLS’s MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF (privately published, Philadelphia 1912) – online via the Hathi Trust

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t7mp5z00p&view=1up&seq=9

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

“When the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland, I am proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father”
—Robert Louis Stevenson, MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF

Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), lighthouse engineer & Robert Louis Stevenson’s father

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

“When the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland, I am proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father”
—Robert Louis Stevenson, MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF

Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), lighthouse engineer & Robert Louis Stevenson’s father

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

“When the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland, I am proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father”
—Robert Louis Stevenson, MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF

Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), lighthouse engineer & Robert Louis Stevenson’s father

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

“When the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland, I am proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father”
—Robert Louis Stevenson, MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF

Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), lighthouse engineer & Robert Louis Stevenson’s father

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

Keepers of the Light
Currently on BBC Sounds

For generations, the Stevenson family built lighthouses around Scotland’s coast. Robert Louis Stevenson was expected to do the same – but instead, he chose to write. Keepers of the Light explores the uneasy boundary between art & engineering, & how one extraordinary family shared an impulse to create in very different forms.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031py0

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

Keepers of the Light
Currently on BBC Sounds

For generations, the Stevenson family built lighthouses around Scotland’s coast. Robert Louis Stevenson was expected to do the same – but instead, he chose to write. Keepers of the Light explores the uneasy boundary between art & engineering, & how one extraordinary family shared an impulse to create in very different forms.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031py0

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

Keepers of the Light
Currently on BBC Sounds

For generations, the Stevenson family built lighthouses around Scotland’s coast. Robert Louis Stevenson was expected to do the same – but instead, he chose to write. Keepers of the Light explores the uneasy boundary between art & engineering, & how one extraordinary family shared an impulse to create in very different forms.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031py0

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

Keepers of the Light
Currently on BBC Sounds

For generations, the Stevenson family built lighthouses around Scotland’s coast. Robert Louis Stevenson was expected to do the same – but instead, he chose to write. Keepers of the Light explores the uneasy boundary between art & engineering, & how one extraordinary family shared an impulse to create in very different forms.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031py0

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson