Stevenson, Robert Louis

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1. A nineteenth-century Scottish author. He spent the last few years of his life as a planter and storyteller on Samoa in the south Pacific Ocean. His works include The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , Treasure Island, and A Child's Garden of Verses.

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See also Theatre Stage: the modern, and Shakespeare, 119; how plays are now produced, 120 “Stage Player’s Complaint,” 57 Stationers’ Register, the, 15, 98 Steevens, George: as Shakespeare editor, 36; comment on “King Lear,” 56 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 18 “Stranger, The,” 196 Students’ theatre, a, 216 Swinburne, A. C., on “Henry VIII.,”

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Stevenson, Robert Louis, anecdote of, 305; foible of, 180.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 13, 39, 44, 52, 53, 55, 56, 82, 89, 90, 93, 96, 99, 110, 137, 139, 144, 145, 149, 153, 155, 158, 161, 162, 169, 174, 179, 182, 188, 191, 192, 200.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis, on the English blackbird's songs, 45.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis, iv, 178; Edmund Gosse on, xiii, 42; experience of, on shipboard, xiii, 30; experience of, in New York, xiii, 31; on failure, vi, 169; humor of, xiii, 11; Fanny Osbourne and, xiii, 22; quoted, iv, 314; xi, 73; xiii, 19; on relaxation, xiv, 41; on Velasquez, vi, 154; Walt Whitman and, xiii, 18.

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