The major novels of Robert Louis Stevenson contain few female characters—in “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” the sole adult feminine presence is a house maid—but there is no doubt about the ...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their ...

If biographies seldom seem as deeply satisfying as fiction, as intense and intimate, it is because biographers cannot actually enter a character’s mind and reveal what no one but the character knows, ...

Good morning. Robert Louis Stevenson’s short time in Bournemouth, where he developed an epistolary friendship with Henry James, was one of the most productive periods of his life. Andrew O’Hagan tells ...

Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish author of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “Treasure Island,” among others, is the latest writer to be granted digital immortality. In an effort ...

Stevenson was one of the happy few: he knew his life's business from childlhood. He was to write books. Happier still, and one of even a smaller minority, he early discovered that authorship is an art ...