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Despite a long-lasting friendship by letter, JM Barrie & Robert Louis Stevenson never met, & Barrie never got to go to Samoa:
“Vailima was the one spot on earth I had any great craving to visit… I shall never go up the Road of Loving Hearts now, on ‘a wonderful clear night of stars,’ to meet the man coming toward me on a horse.”
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Samoa #RobertLouisStevenson #JMBarrie
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Despite a long-lasting friendship by letter, JM Barrie & Robert Louis Stevenson never met, & Barrie never got to go to Samoa:
“Vailima was the one spot on earth I had any great craving to visit… I shall never go up the Road of Loving Hearts now, on ‘a wonderful clear night of stars,’ to meet the man coming toward me on a horse.”
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Samoa #RobertLouisStevenson #JMBarrie
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Despite a long-lasting friendship by letter, JM Barrie & Robert Louis Stevenson never met, & Barrie never got to go to Samoa:
“Vailima was the one spot on earth I had any great craving to visit… I shall never go up the Road of Loving Hearts now, on ‘a wonderful clear night of stars,’ to meet the man coming toward me on a horse.”
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Samoa #RobertLouisStevenson #JMBarrie
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Despite a long-lasting friendship by letter, JM Barrie & Robert Louis Stevenson never met, & Barrie never got to go to Samoa:
“Vailima was the one spot on earth I had any great craving to visit… I shall never go up the Road of Loving Hearts now, on ‘a wonderful clear night of stars,’ to meet the man coming toward me on a horse.”
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Samoa #RobertLouisStevenson #JMBarrie
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Despite a long-lasting friendship by letter, JM Barrie & Robert Louis Stevenson never met, & Barrie never got to go to Samoa:
“Vailima was the one spot on earth I had any great craving to visit… I shall never go up the Road of Loving Hearts now, on ‘a wonderful clear night of stars,’ to meet the man coming toward me on a horse.”
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Samoa #RobertLouisStevenson #JMBarrie
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 14 “The Islet”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #kidnapped #badpeople #consequences #evil #folly #fool #karma #wickedness
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Out now!
STEVENSON AND PLEASURE
Ed. Julie Gay, Lesley Graham & Nathalie JaëckLooking at physical, creative, & intertextual/intermedial pleasures, these 10 essays explore how pleasure – sensory, intellectual & aesthetic – influenced Robert Louis Stevenson’s work & its reception.
Available from bookshops worldwide (£24.95 / €29.95 / $29.95) & digitally via Project MUSE
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/
#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #Victorian #19thcentury #literarystudies
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1882-08), “Talk and Talkers (A Sequel),” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 46More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #relationship #argument #talking #communication #coexistence #conversation #disagreement #discussion #dispute #engagement #husband #marriage #partnership #spouse #wife
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Available for preorder
STEVENSON & PLEASURE
Ed. Julie Gay, Lesley Graham & Nathalie Jaëck
£24.95 / €29.95 / $29.95Looking at physical, creative, & intertextual/intermedial pleasures, these 10 essays explore how pleasure – sensory, intellectual & aesthetic – influenced Robert Louis Stevenson’s work & its reception
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/
#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #pleasure #litstudies #litcrit
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect. We should have been cut-throats to do otherwise. And there’s an end. We ought to know distinctly that we are damned for what we do wrong; but when we have done right, we have only been gentlemen, after all. There is nothing to make a work about.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 6 “Right and Wrong”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #obviousdecision #dotherightthing #doinggood #duty #good #gooddeed #inevitability #naturalcourse #retrospect #virtue
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
To give the public what they do not want, and yet expect to be supported: we have there a strange pretension, and yet not uncommon, above all with painters. The first duty in this world is for a man to pay his way; when that is quite accomplished, he may plunge into what eccentricity he likes; but emphatically not till then.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #art #artistry #commercialism #creativity #earnings #income #makingaliving #makingmoney #practicality #pragmatism #publicopinion #responsibility #writing
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party, who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade. And yet this should not be. Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #workingclass #contentment #disrespectability #enjoyment #enough #hardwork #idleness #industry #labor #makingmoney #recreation #rulingclass
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The strange case of Robert Louis Stevenson
Alastair Benn is joined by Professor Leo Damrosch, author of Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, to explore the life & legacy of the celebrated writer, including one of his most enduring literary achievements, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnJ2R6EgzZ0
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertlouisStevenson #JekyllandHyde
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RE: https://mastodon.scot/@scotlit/115842616105911298
“The killer is never assumed to be a local East Ender… He’s always judged to be a man out of place, flipping between high society by day & the dark & dirty streets of Whitechapel by night”
Lucy Worsley on how Robert Louis Stevenson’s JEKYLL & HYDE influenced the legend of Jack the Ripper
https://www.salon.com/2014/10/18/jack_the_rippers_long_shadow_from_sherlock_holmes_to_jekyll_hyde/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #JekyllandHyde #horror #gothic #JacktheRipper
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You can download a free ebook edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE from @standardebooks 👇
8/8
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-louis-stevenson/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #JekyllandHyde #horror #gothic
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s literary creation is embedded in language & continues to influence modern culture. From December 2025, via space.com:
“James Webb Space Telescope watches ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ galaxy shapeshift into a cosmic monster”
7/8
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #JekyllandHyde #horror #gothic #astronomy #JamesWebb
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“In the last 20–30 years there have been countless tales told by Scottish writers which clearly owe a debt to Stevenson’s novella”
—Alistair Braidwood on how Robert Louis Stevenson’s “fine bogey tale” still looms over Scottish literature today
6/8
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #JekyllandHyde #horror #gothic
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“One of the problems of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is that it’s a lost cause before you start… Everyone knows the plot before they even open the book”
—Ian Campbell at our 2018 Schools Conference, on teaching JEKYLL & HYDE
5/8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rOcZGe_xOBE&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WZwMUjyxVcQZ8J2K1gp3_Nh
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #JekyllandHyde #horror #gothic
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“Respectability is doubled with degradation; abandon with restraint; honesty with duplicity”
British Library curator Greg Buzwell explores how JEKYLL & HYDE engaged with 19th-century debates about evolution, degeneration, consciousness, homosexuality & criminal psychology
4/8
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #JekyllandHyde #horror #gothic #evolution #consciousness #psychology #homosexuality #historyofscience
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“[JEKYLL & HYDE], like FRANKENSTEIN before it, has been too often simplified, distorted, & refashioned into a warning about good defeated by evil. The true nature of Stevenson’s tale is far more complex.”
—Leslie S. Klinger on Stevenson’s unsettling creation
3/8
https://crimereads.com/jekyll-hyde-robert-louis-stevenson/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #JekyllandHyde #horror #gothic #Frankenstein
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“The manuscript also contains Stevenson’s edits, in some places quite extensive… Stevenson complicates the distinction between the two poles that Jekyll & Hyde are supposed to represent”
—Robert Louis Stevenson’s handwritten manuscript is online, via New York’s Morgan Library
2/8
https://www.themorgan.org/collection/robert-louis-stevenson/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #JekyllandHyde #horror #gothic #manuscripts
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“Despite its premise of the distillation of evil through shapeshifting, the anchoring concerns of this gothic tale are profoundly & universally human”
Robert Louis Stevenson’s STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE was first published #OTD, 5 Jan, 1886
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#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #JekyllandHyde #horror #gothic
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🎩Literary Hub attempts to resuscitate Robert Louis Stevenson with a "critique" that's less about his life and more about selling hats. 🤦♂️Imagine thinking you can unlock the secrets to life and death through endless podcast prattle and style advice! 📚🔄
https://lithub.com/robert-louis-stevensons-art-of-living-and-dying/ #LiteraryHub #RobertLouisStevenson #PodcastCritique #StyleAdvice #Resuscitation #HackerNews #ngated -
Double Nation? Stevenson & the Doppelgangers of 19th-Century Scottish Gothic
Recorded 7 Jan 2025: Exploring Robert Louis Stevenson’s Gothic doppelganger in JEKYLL & HYDE within the evolution of 18th- & 19th-century Scottish & transatlantic Gothic traditions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUv0B-d3pos
#Scottish #literature #Gothic #RobertLouisStevenson #JekyllandHyde #doppelganger #18thcentury #19thcentury