Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson

1850 – 1894

Scottish novelist and poet (1850-1894)

  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · United Kingdom
  • British
  • Gothic
  • Adventure Romance
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About

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).

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Life on the Timeline

1850 – 1894
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Major Works

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