Robert Louis Stevenson

EL 's ancestors were Scottish; they hailed from Midlothian. They claimed kinship with David Balfour, the hero of Robert Louis Stevenson 's Kidnapped, and Sir John Harington , the Elizabethan inventor of the water closet.

Mary acquired various country skills, like milking (by hand), butter-making, and of course riding. She was not expected, however, to need to acquire skills that were marketable. Initially she was educated by about...

At a very young age, JR imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words...

HM later wrote of her earliest memory. Her early world, she said, was synaesthesic. As a child she was constantly reading and always enacting some fictional role. Anyone who hesitates near me...

Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it...

Rosemary's mother was probably her most important teacher. She told her stories which, no matter how outlandish and fantastic, the very young Rosemary accepted as literal truth; she later imparted all kinds of varied information...

Marion Greene was also, on her mother's side, a first cousin once removed of Robert Louis Stevenson .

CC 's father, George Gray Macfarlane , had worked as a young man in the Caribbean and the USA. He exported textiles to the West Indies and was president and a founder of the YMCA

Charles Jenkin's family was Welsh but had lived in England for generations and was now settled at Northiam in Sussex. His father had died eight months before, leaving nothing but debt behind him. Charles...

Fleeming (pronounced Fleming) Jenkin had great abilities that were evident from an early age. His biographer, Robert Louis Stevenson , rates his mother's influence over him very high, and admires though he cannot wholly approve...

In London ATR connected or re-connected with friends including Kipling , Robert Louis Stevenson , Sidney Lee , Arnold Bennett , and Rhoda Broughton .

GM knew the poets Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Swinburne —he sometimes stayed with them while in London. He also knew Emma Caroline Wood , Lucie Duff Gordon , Leslie Stephen , Anne Thackeray Ritchie

On her trip to the United States, AM met the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson , and the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and his wife Evelyn Wade .

EN 's aristocratic lineage brought her into contact with many notable government and royal figures. As a young girl, she often visited the fifteenth-century Château de Breteuil, not far from Paris, home of her...

Kipling's fame brought easy acquaintances with celebrities. In November 1894, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stayed as a guest in his American home. On the death in Samoa of Robert Louis Stevenson (whom he had never...