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The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
Series Editor(s): Stephen D. Arata, Richard Dury, Penny Fielding, Anthony A. Mandal edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-the-n...
The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
<p>Robert Louis Stevenson is recognised one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century, covering an extraordinary breadth of genres, including stories, essays, travel-writing, the histori...
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Bluidy Jack’s Prisoner
13 Nov, Edinburgh – free

Although often bed-bound with the pulmonary disease he called “Bluidy Jack”, Robert Louis Stevenson continued to write. The RLS Club examines the author’s strange double life, as they celebrate his 175th birthday
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Bluidy Jack’s Prisoner
Bluidy Jack’s Prisoner
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November 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Events planned for #RLSday2025 on Nov 13th in Edinburgh rlsday.wordpress.com
Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2025
Edinburgh Celebrates A Great Scottish Writer
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November 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Margaret Drabble talks about Leo Damrosch’s biography of RLS and his entourage in this week’s @thetls.bsky.social podcast podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/t...
Escape Artists
Podcast Episode · The TLS Podcast · 23/10/2025 · 50m
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October 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Leo Damrosch, emeritus professor at Harvard University, will speak about his new book "Storyteller: the Life of Robert Louis Stevenson" on Nov. 19th 4:30pm. Check out the event here:
Book Talk: Storyteller by Leo Damrosch
Yale Library Book Talks Leo Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Research Professor of Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, will speak about his new book "Storyteller: the Life of Robert Louis Stevenson." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) is famed for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but he published many other novels and stories before his death at forty-four. Despite lifelong ill health, he had immense vitality; Mark Twain said his eyes burned with “smoldering rich fire.” Born in Edinburgh to a family of lighthouse engineers, Stevenson set many stories in Scotland but sought travel and adventure in a life as romantic as his novels. “I loved a ship,” he wrote, “as a man loves burgundy or daybreak.” The adventures were shared with his free-spirited American wife, Fanny, with whom he moved to the South Pacific. Samoan friends named Stevenson “Storyteller.” Reading, he said, “should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.” His own books have been translated into dozens of languages. Jorge Luis Borges called his stories “one of the forms of happiness,” and other modernist masters as various as Proust, Nabokov, and Calvino have paid tribute to his greatness as a literary artist. In Storyteller, Leo Damrosch brings to life an unforgettable personality, illuminated by many who knew Stevenson well and drawing from thousands of the writer’s letters in his many voices and moods—playful, imaginative, at times tragic. Leo Damrosch is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus at Harvard University. His many books include "Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius" (National Book Award finalist); "Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova"; "The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age"; and "Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World" (National Book Critics Circle Award winner, Pulitzer Prize finalist).
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October 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie…

“Ending badly from the beginning”: facing finitude with Robert Louis Stevenson
8 Oct @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social & online – free

An @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Work-in-Progress seminar from Dr Shari Sabeti
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/dr-sha...
October 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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ACTUAL SCIENCE proves that Tim Curry gives the pre-eminent screen portrayal of Long John Silver

From Braemar to Hollywood: The American Appropriation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pirates
—Richard J. Hill & Laura Eidam, Humanities 2020, 9(1)
www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/...
September 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
From Illustration to Meme: The Pictorial Representa-
tion of Duality in Editions of Robert Louis Stevenson’s
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
WOLFGANG G. MÜLLER scholar.google.fr/scholar_url?...
scholar.google.fr
September 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
One More Time: Stevenson’s “Across the Plains” and
the Genre of Trans-American Travel
CAROLINE MCCRACKEN-FLESHER in Connotations www.connotations.de/wp-content/u...
www.connotations.de
August 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Othello in the South Seas: Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Beach of Falesá” as Shakespearean Rewriting
Lucio De Capitani
Published in Connotations Vol. 34 (2025) www.connotations.de/article/othe...
Othello in the South Seas: Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Beach of Falesá” as Shakespearean Rewriting – Connotations
www.connotations.de
August 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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I send to you, commissioners,
A paper that may please ye, sirs
(For troth they say it might be worse‍‍
An’ I believe’t)…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “To the Commissioners of Northern Lights”, which RLS sent along with his design for “a new form of intermittent light”
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August 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Robert Cain in KIDNAPPED (1917), the earliest known feature-length adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel. I crowdfunded a DVD release with the film and all the original shorts that accompanied it (a fairy tale, a gladiator comedy, two actualities) back in 2018
July 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Courting the Bourgeois: Stevenson, Baudelaire, and Writing as a Profession
Katherine Ashley
Connotations, Vol. 34, 153-169. www.connotations.de/article/kath...
Katherine Ashley – Courting the Bourgeois: Stevenson, Baudelaire, and Writing as a Profession – Connotations
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July 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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My article on Stevenson and Scott, “'Scott’s Voyage in the Lighthouse Yacht' and Intertextual Transmission" has been published in Connotations www.connotations.de/article/lesl...
Lesley Graham – “Scott’s Voyage in the Lighthouse Yacht” and Intertextual Transmission – Connotations
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July 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
CFP: (Un)natural Stevenson
Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science and gender, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Aula Baratto, 11-12 May 2026 Organizers: Lucio De Capitani & Alessandro Cabiati docs.google.com/document/d/1...
CFP_UnNatural_Stevenson_Venice_2026
Call for papers: (Un)natural Stevenson Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science and gender Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 11-12 May 2026 Aula Baratto Organizers: Lucio De Capitani...
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June 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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“Stevenson discloses a fundamental irony: that things in the world are not clear & lucid… There is an uncertainty built into his style that is encouraged or assisted by his use of the semicolon”

—Barry Menikoff’s Robert Louis Stevenson & “The Beach of Falesá”
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May 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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I got mugged!

My new variant cover for THRAWN JANET…now a mug!
Cheerio!

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November 26, 2024 at 6:57 AM
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Hot Off The Presses ....I was just sent this from my publisher - I'll be signing the 1st complete publication of THRAWN JANET and with a new 3D cover by me.... at #Prague @comiccon this weekend #horrorfans! Published by Whaleden.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The Absent Heart by @alibacon.bsky.social In 1870, Frances Sitwell, trapped in an abusive marriage, is grateful for the chaste affection offered by Sidney Colvin. They make a perfect couple until the young Robert Louis Stevenson bursts into their lives www.linen-press.com/shop/the-abs...
March 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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1 May @natlibscot.bsky.social – £0–£10

Novelist & Edinburgh Makar @michaelpedersen.bsky.social, bestselling crime writer @valmcdermid.bsky.social, filmmaker David Carrillo, & National Library curator Colin McIlroy explore the legacy of Robert Louis Stevenson
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Michael Pedersen on Robert Louis Stevenson
An evening exploring the legacy of one of Scotland’s most renowned authors in words, film, and conversation.
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March 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story “The Bottle Imp” was first published (in English) on this day, 8 Feb, 1891, in the New York Herald. It was originally published in Samoan translation as “O le Fagu Aitu” in the missionary magazine O le sulu Samoa (The Samoan Torch)

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February 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"Tusitala: Pacific perspectives on Robert Louis Stevenson"
an exhibition at the National Library of Scotland (8 November 2024 to 10 May 2025) www.nls.uk/whats-on/tus...
Tusitala
Explore the life and legacy of Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific, as told through historic archives and contemporary creative works in this exhibition at the National Library of Scotland.
www.nls.uk
January 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
Series Editor(s): Stephen D. Arata, Richard Dury, Penny Fielding, Anthony A. Mandal edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-the-n...
The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
<p>Robert Louis Stevenson is recognised one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century, covering an extraordinary breadth of genres, including stories, essays, travel-writing, the histori...
edinburghuniversitypress.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM