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The ashes of his wife Fanny Stevenson, who died in California in 1914, were taken back by her daughter to Samoa in 1915 and buried beside her husband. [5] The bronze plaque for Fanny bears her Samoan name 'Aolele' (Flying Cloud in Samoan). Stevenson's estate and colonial home, Villa Vailima, is now the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in his
The Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial is an outdoor memorial commemorating Robert Louis Stevenson, in Portsmouth Square, San Francisco, California. [1] [2] References
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island , Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses .
Stevenson Memorial is a 1903 oil painting by the American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer, intended to commemorate the writer Robert Louis Stevenson.Though Thayer initiated several paintings with the intent of honoring Stevenson, Stevenson Memorial is the only version to survive the artist's revisions.
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, but travelled widely and in 1888 he and his family began a three-year tour of the South Pacific, eventually settling in Samoa. [1] In 1890 Stevenson purchased 314 acres (127 ha) of land and began to build a home there; by 1891 his mansion Villa Vailima was completed, named after the nearby village ...
Monuments in New Calton Burial Ground with Arthur's Seat and the Scottish Parliament in the background. New Calton Burial Ground is a burial ground in Edinburgh.It was built as an overspill and functional replacement to Old Calton Burial Ground and lies half a mile to its east on Regent Road in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the south-east slopes of Calton Hill.
Stevenson's book Silverado Squatters contains stories he wrote about his experiences during his visit to the area. The area has rough terrain, with evergreen forests in the canyons on north-facing slopes and chaparral on the south-facing slopes. Robert Louis Stevenson State Park is located off State Route 29 between Calistoga and Middletown.
The Stevenson Cottage is a historic house in the village of Saranac Lake, in the town of St. Armand, Essex County, New York. It currently serves as a museum dedicated to the life of the author Robert Louis Stevenson. Originally known as Baker Cottage, Stevenson took up residence there during the winter of 1887-88 while seeking treatment for ...