Campbell, Elaine. “An Expatriate at Home: Dominica’s Elma Napier”. Kunapipi, Vol.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Standard Name: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Elma Napier | Critic Elaine Campbell
reads EN
's collection of travel-stories as belonging to the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson
and Alec Waugh
. |
| Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | 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, qtd. in Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research, 1996. 159: 256 |
| Literary responses | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | 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... |
| Literary responses | James Malcolm Rymer | One reader who loved this book was the young Robert Louis Stevenson
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Performance of text | Bryony Lavery | BL
's stage adaptation of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
opened as a Christmas show at the National Theatre
. Horspool, David. “Knockabout on Treasure Island”. Times Literary Supplement, 17 Dec. 2014. |
| Publishing | Flora Thompson | The Catholic Fireside printed FT
's Skerryvore, named after and set in a house (near her own at Winton near Bournemouth), whose former owner Robert Louis Stevenson
had named it after a lighthouse. Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale, 1996. 70 and n1 |
| Reception | Carol Ann Duffy | The year following her Selected Poems, CAD
won the Lannan Literary Award in the USA, and her work was included in the second volume of Penguin Modern Poets. A decade after that,... |
| Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
's His Good Fairy, from the Illustrated London News of 28 May 1894, features a grand duchess of low origin who staves off guilt-induced madness by returning to live as a peasant and... |
| Textual Features | Beatrice Harraden | They mention the need for new funds and the way they will supplement previous subscriptions. Harraden, Beatrice, and Elizabeth Robins. “The Sussex Hospital”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 934, 11 Dec. 1919, p. 750. 750 |
| Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | RM
published another novel, Orphan Island, a tongue-in-cheek contribution to the exotic-adventure genre of The Coral IslandR. M. Ballantyne
and Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson
. Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003. 165, 338 Macaulay, Rose. Letters to a Friend from Rose Macaulay 1950-1952. Editor Babington Smith, Constance, Fontana, 1968. 356 |
| Textual Production | Laurence Alma-Tadema | LAT
provided several introductions to works for children. One of these was for a new edition of Robert Louis Stevenson
's A Child's Garden of Verses, 1927, illustrated by Kate Elizabeth Olver
, Here... |
| Textual Production | Mary Wesley | As a small child Mary Farmar (later MW
) spent hours telling herself stories set in particular locations derived from her reading of the Baroness Orczy
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, and Frederick Marryat
... |
| Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | She later said the non-realism of this tale had dissatisfied her. She acknowledged the influence on it of Dickens
and Robert Louis Stevenson
, and then judged that the best bits . . . have... |
| Textual Production | Clotilde Graves | CG
published, as the author of Knee-capped (a reference to R. L. Stevenson
's Kidnapped), her parody The Pirate's Hand, A Romance of Heredity. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | L. T. Meade | She gave up her editorship only when other writing commitments and her growing children made it impossible to continue. During those six years she used to eat breakfast at half past seven, receive her first... |
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