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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
I’ve a grand memory for forgetting, David.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 18 “I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore”
[Alan]More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
I’ve a grand memory for forgetting, David.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 18 “I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore”
[Alan]More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #forgetting #memory #memoryloss #selectivememory
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
I’ve a grand memory for forgetting, David.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 18 “I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore”
[Alan]More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #forgetting #memory #memoryloss #selectivememory
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
I’ve a grand memory for forgetting, David.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 18 “I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore”
[Alan]More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #forgetting #memory #memoryloss #selectivememory
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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
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
The Amateur Immigrant, ch. 4 “Steerage Types (1895)More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
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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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*Well, I kinda figured, but that was worth a look.
*What if Walter Scott and his French wife Charlotte had been stuffing all their guests with mayonnaise. What if they had insisted that Washington Irving, their American disciple, had to eat mayonnaise #RobertLouisStevenson #Samoa #mayonnaise -
*I hear you, but your attitude is rank obscurantism. #Mahon #Balearic #Menorca #mayonnaise #France #Samoa #Scotland #globalization #RobertLouisStevenson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayonna...
Mayonnaise - Wikipedia
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Never allow your mind to dwell on your own misconduct: that is ruin. The conscience has morbid sensibilities; it must be employed but not indulged, like the imagination or the stomach.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 7.1 “Discipline of Conscience”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #conscience #despondency #error #failure #misconduct #morbidity #obsession #selfblame #selfcondemnation #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfreproach #shortcomings #sins
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Solitude is the climax of the negative virtues. When we go to bed after a solitary day we can tell ourselves that we have not been unkind nor dishonest nor untruthful; and the negative virtues are agreeable to that dangerous faculty we call the conscience. That they should ever be admitted for a part of virtue is what I cannot explain. I do not care two straws for all the nots.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 4.6 “Solitude and Society”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #accountability #conscience #feedback #foolingyourself #negativevirtue #selfapproval #selfassurance #selfdeception #selfevaluation #selfopinion #selfrationalization #selfreproach #selfrighteousness #selfsufficiency #sinofomission #solitude #virtue
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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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“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 👇
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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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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Hope is the boy, a blind, headlong, pleasant fellow, good to chase swallows with the salt; Faith is the grave, experienced, yet smiling man. Hope lives on ignorance; open-eyed Faith is built upon a knowledge of our life, of the tyranny of circumstance and the frailty of human resolution. Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honourable defeat to be a form of victory. Hope is a kind old pagan; but Faith grew up in Christian days, and early learnt humility.
In the one temper, a man is indignant that he cannot spring up in a clap to heights of elegance and virtue; in the other, out of a sense of his infirmities, he is filled with confidence because a year has come and gone, and he has still preserved some rags of honour. In the first, he expects an angel for a wife; in the last, he knows that she is like himself — erring, thoughtless, and untrue; but like himself also, filled with a struggling radiancy of better things, and adorned with ineffective qualities.Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1881), “Virginibus Puerisque, Part 2”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #aspiration #endurance #faith #honor #hope #humility #idealism #perfection #progress #relationship #expectations
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From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod”
Published in A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885)Image: illustration by Charles Robinson (1870–1937) to “The Land of Nod”
Today, 14 March, is #WorldSleepDay 💤https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47431/the-land-of-nod
#Scottish #literature #kidlit #poetry #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #sleep #dream #dreams #dreaming
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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
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That Crafty Artifice: Stevenson’s Brownies and the writing process
“Stevenson relates examples of vivid dreams at length, as illustrations of this detailed, indigenous creation of narrative material, but also as a pathology which leads to the reification of such dream residuum in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde…”
#Scottish #literature #dreams #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #WorldSleepDay #Writing #WritingProcess
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“While he was yet a student, there came to him a dream–adventure which he has no anxiety to repeat; he began, that is to say, to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life—one of the day, one of the night…”
—Robert Louis Stevenson, “A Chapter on Dreams” – in THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON vol. XVI, on @gutenberg_org
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #WorldSleepDay
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30990/30990-h/30990-h.htm#page177
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From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod” – from A Child’s Garden of Verses
A #poem for #WorldSleepDay 💤#Scottish #literature #kidlit #poetry #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47431/the-land-of-nod