Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson: The Man and His Work: The Bookman Extra Number of 1913 Revisited - Robert Louis Stevenson: Rediscoveries

Marc Notes: First published in UK 1913. More recently avail. in US only.

Contributor Bio:  Barrie, James Matthew J. M. Barrie was born in 1860, the ninth of ten children of hard-working parents in Scotland's jute-weaving industry. Fascinated by stories of her own life told him by his mother, he was determined to write, finding work on the Nottingham Journal after graduating from Edinburgh University. In 1885, he moved to London as a freelance writer and successfully sold the Auld Licht Idylls, a volume based on his mother's tales. By the time Peter Pan opened on the London stage in 1904, Barrie had written more than thirty novels and plays, many autobiographical and several of them major hits such as The Little Minister, Quality Street and The Admirable Crichton. Knighted and awarded the Order of Merit he continued writing into old age. He died in 1937. Contributor Bio:  Crockett, S R S. R. (Saumel Rutherford) Crockett was a Scottish novelist who wrote over 40 works in the Kailyard School fashion, a style of writing developed in the late 1800s as a reaction against coarse representations of Scottish life. Crockett's contemporaries in the Kailyard School included J. M. Barrie, George MacDonald, and Ian Maclaren. Crockett's most popular work, The Raiders, captures the excitement and anxiety of Galloway smugglers. The Black Douglas was credited by J. R. R. Tolkien as an influence on his development of the character Sauron in his Lord of the Rings trilogy. S. R. Crockett died in France in 1914. Contributor Bio:  Munro, Neil Neil Munro frequently performs and directs at the Stratford and Shaw festivals.