![]() ![]() Compelled to struggle almost constantly against ill health, he had enough fighting spirit left over to take on all comers with his pen. But he seems to have had a valiant nature. He had a pitifully weak chest and was as thin as a rake: he once described himself as ‘a mere complication of cough and bones’. He perhaps did not quite qualify as a romantic hero, being inclined to fall on his face and then make the most of the joke at his own expense. When she sailed for home to finalise her divorce, the future author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped was in need of an adventure to distract him.Ī fair proportion of Stevenson’s short life could be classified as adventure – for example, he would make a nearly fatal journey across America to reach his beloved. She was ten years his senior and had two children from her first marriage, which had broken down. ![]() He had been staying in France and had fallen seriously in love with an American woman, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, who would later become his wife. Robert Louis Stevenson was in his late twenties and not yet widely known as a writer. ![]()
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