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1 de jan. de 1995 · Fanny Stevenson had a curiously complex personality and it would be easy to accept Frank McLynn's evident dislike of her in his 1996 biography of Robert Louis Stevenson. He considered that her mental instability contributed to the stresses and premature death of RLS.
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Fanny Stevenson from a glass plate by W. Edwin Gledhill - Santa Barbara Historical Society. Vol. XXXII, No. 3. Fall, 1986. Isobel Field, with photo of Stevenson - Santa Barbara Historical Society.
In September 1876 Stevenson found his way to the small artist town of Grez-sur-Loing, outside Paris, to meet with his cousin Robert “Bob” Alan Mowbray Stevenson. Unexpectedly, it was here that Louis was introduced to a married American woman, Fanny Osbourne, and her two children, Belle and Lloyd.
Fanny Van de Grift (Frances Matilda Van de Grift) N 1, (née le 10 mars 1840 à Indianapolis et morte le 18 février 1914 à Santa Monica en Californie) est une pionnière, voyageuse, écrivaine, et curatrice de l'œuvre de son deuxième mari, l'écrivain écossais Robert Louis Stevenson. Elle est la mère d' Isobel Osbourne et de Lloyd Osbourne .
Fanny and Robert Stevenson: Our Samoan Adventure, ed. by Charles Neider (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1956) [Introductory texts by RLS and Fanny Stevenson, including Fanny’s diary from 1890-93.] Fitzpatrick, Elayne Wareing, A Quixotic Companionship: Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson , 2nd edn (Monterey: Old Monterey Preservation Society, 1997).
2 de mar. de 1995 · Fanny Stevenson a véritablement sacrifié sa vie à celui envers qui elle nourrissait un amour démesuré, au point de se rendre jalouse de sa propre fille lorsque cette dernière empiétait sur le rôle de première lectrice des oeuvres de Stevenson. La posture favorite de Fanny Stevenson était de se ranger du côté du plus faible. Épouser ...
29 de nov. de 2010 · Alexandra Lapierre spent five years tracing Fanny's life, from her early tumultuous years in America to her days after Stevenson's death. The author's relentless and thorough research drove her to discover Fanny's wardrobe and jewels, to climb the mount where she is buried alongside Stevenson, to study her paintings in Scotland, and to unearth her love letters.
