Robert Louis Stevenson

The following summer she recovered from this frenzy and set to work, although now both deaf and aphasic, trying to repair her loss of language by the use of dictionaries. A third stroke, however, scattered...

Again this novel could hardly be more different from its predecessor. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson 's Songs of Travel heads it, about the salt-encrusted legacy of seafaring ancestors on the shores of Fife...

Alison Dunbar, lonely among her fashion-conscious and shopping-mad schoolmates, begins writing her pony story in exercise books (as was Cannan's own habit) and attains the apotheosis of acceptance by a publisher. She also sheds the...

Acquainted with Andrew Lang through her mother 's social circle, VH shaped her own poetry under his influence. Partly because of Lang's connections, her romantic poem The Death of the Shameful Knight was published in...

MS wrote constantly as a schoolgirl. She often wrote poems (more sophisticated than her prose) at night while she minded her disabled grandmother. She says she was destined to poetry by all my mentors.

In Through the Magic DoorSACD wrote of those authors whom he felt to have been his most important influences, including Froissart , Boswell , Walter Scott , Thomas Babington Macaulay , Carlyle , Melville

The prefatory poem To Her Book translates the traditional farewell from creator to creation (as written by Ovid and imitated by Chaucer , Robert Louis Stevenson , and others, and popularly called Go, little book...

Probably Larkin's most widely-known poem appeared in this volume. Combining the colloquial with the lapidary, it presents a shockingly terse summary statement about the handing on of emotional pain in families: They fuck you up...

Its unnamed male protagonist, presented in the third person, is an artist back in London after thirty years away, staying in a flat in Piccadilly borrowed from his writer friend Humphrey Penderry. He and Penderry...

As the title suggests, Polly Flint's chief passion is for Daniel Defoe , to whose writing she brings a passionate, intelligent naiveté and great perception. She fiercely contradicts those who suppose that Defoe lacked imagination...

By the time of her death, MEB 's novels had received praise from many great writers of her day, including George Moore , Arnold Bennett , Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas Hardy . Her astonishingly...

Critic Elaine Campbell reads EN 's collection of travel-stories as belonging to the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson and Alec Waugh .

The work has been consistently admired. On its appearance the editor of The Spectator praised it for wonderful mastery of the borderland of the natural and the supernatural, and said it demonstrated MO

Only three years after the appearance of HCJ 's last novel, the young Robert Louis Stevenson wrote dismissively of her work in a memoir of her son appended to two volumes of the latter's literary...

One reader who loved this book was the young Robert Louis Stevenson .