Born Edinburgh's New Town. Never a well man, he tried living in various places looking for a climate that would suit: Bournemouth, France, New York State. He died on a small Samoan island in the Pacific while opening a bottle of wine. The effort caused a blood vessel to burst. He and Henry James admired each others work and exchanged support and criticisms.
Some of his work: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verses.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850 - 1894, author, lived here. Erected by the Hamp...
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Winifred Holtby
Born Yorkshire. Graduated with and maintained a long friendship with Vera Brittain. Writer, reformer and pacifist.
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Elizabeth David
Cookery writer. Born as Elizabeth Gwynne into a wealthy family. Travelled in Europe and around the Mediterranean, spending some years in Cairo, where she married in 1944. Returned to England in 194...
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Pennsylvania Library Association
The Pennsylvania Library Association (PaLA) is the state's oldest and most diverse professional library organization serving libraries, library employees, library trustees, and Friends of the Libra...
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Norman Douglas
Writer. Born George Norman Douglas in Thüringen, Austria, the son of a mountaineer and archaeologist. Joined the Foreign Office in 1894 and served in St Petersburg. He settled in Capri, where his c...
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Three Men in a Boat
Comic novel written by Jerome K. Jerome, first published in 1889.
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