Robert%20Louis%20Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson

• Nationality ScottishBirth Date November 13,
  1850Death Date December 3, 1894Genre(s)
  NOVELS POETRYhttp//people.brandeis.edu/teuber/
  stevensonbio.html

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• Stevenson was largely raised by his nanny, Alison
  Cunningham, whom he devoted A CHILD'S GARDEN OF
  VERSES (1885). Since his childhood, Stevenson
  suffered from tuberculosis. During his early
  years, he spent much of his time in bed,
  composing stories before he had learned to read.
  At the age of sixteen he produced a short
  historical tale. As an adult, there were times
  when Stevenson could not wear a jacket for fear
  of bringing on a hemorrhage of the lung. In 1867
  he entered Edinburgh University to study
  engineering. Due to his ill health, he had to
  abandon his plans to follow in his father's
  footsteps. Stevenson changed to law and in 1875
  he was called to the Scottish bar. By then he had
  already started to write travel sketches, essays,
  and short stories for magazines. His first
  articles were published in The Edinburgh
  University Magazine (1871) and The Portofolio
  (1873

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• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,
  published in January of 1886, sold 40,000 copies
  in six months in Britain. Stevenson said later
  that its plot was revealed to him in a dream. The
  mystery of Jekyll and Hyde is gradually revealed
  through the narratives of Mr Enfield, Mr
  Utterson, Dr Lanyon, and Jekyll's butler Poole.
  Utterson, Jekyll's lawyer, discovers that the
  nasty Mr. Edward Hyde is the heir of Dr. Jekyll's
  fortune. Hyde is suspected of a murder. Utterson
  and Poole break into Jekyll's laboratory and find
  the lifeless Hyde. http//www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rlst
  even.htm

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• Two documents explain the mystery Jekyll's old
  friend, the late Dr. Lanyon, tells that Jekyll
  and Hyde are the same person. In his own account
  Jekyll tells that to separate the good and evil
  aspects of his nature, he invented a transforming
  drug. His evil self takes the form of the
  repulsive Mr Hyde. Jekyll's supplies of drugs run
  out and he finds himself slipping involuntarily
  into being Hyde. Jekyll kills himself, but the
  last words of the confession are written by his
  alter ego "Here then, as I lay down the pen and
  proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the
  life of that unhappy Dr. Jekyll to an end."

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Stevenson died of a brain hemorrhage on December
3, 1894
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RLS in Sydney, 1893, together with his wife
(Fanny Stevenson), his stepdaughter (Isobel
Strong, Fanny's daughter by her first marriage)
and his mother (Margaret Stevenson) (1893 2i)
The Writers' Museum, Edinburgh