Whenever the moon and stars are set,

Victorian author who died in 1894 at age 44. He had lung trouble for the whole of his life, which was initially thought to have been tuberculosis; modern assessments vary. Parents were Thomas Stevenson a lighthouse designer/builder and Margaret Isabella Balfour, a lady of the upper crust. Stevenson Married once to Fanny van der Grift in May of 1880. Stevenson wrote one work that is Steampunk related, and that was The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde. There are no screen plays or…

Robert Louis Stevenson/March 1893 (colorized)

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(1850-1894) Scottish author most famous for Treasure Island and Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

“Don’t put North Britain on your paper; put Scotland and be done with it. Alas, that I should be stabbed in the house of my friends! The name of my native land is not North Britain, whatever …

I'm drawing my favorite authors. Today, Robert Louis Stevenson. "But one man of her crew alive. What put to sea with seventy-five." –from Treasure Island

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