Facts about Robert Louis Stevenson
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Stevenson spent his honeymoon in 1880 traveling through the California mountains with his bride Fanny Osbourne, experiences later transformed into the novel Silverado Squatters.
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Stevenson's 1886 novel Kidnapped was inspired by the true 1745 Scottish Jacobite rising and the real-life kidnapping of young David Balfour.
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Stevenson's 1882 novella The New Arabian Nights marked his first significant publication under his own name and launched his literary career at age thirty-two.
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Chronic respiratory illness plagued Robert Louis Stevenson throughout his life, forcing him to spend his final years in Samoa from 1889 until his death in 1894.
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Treasure Island, serialized in Young Folks magazine from 1881 to 1882, earned Robert Louis Stevenson only thirty pounds despite becoming his first major literary success.
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in just three to six weeks during 1885 while he was bedridden in Scotland.
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In 1889, Robert Louis Stevenson sailed from Sydney aboard the Janet Nichol to explore the South Pacific islands for eighteen months.