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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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(1850–94) Scottish author with a wide range of talents. He was a great traveller and his early wanderings in France with Modestine were described in Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879). In 1883 he achieved immediate success as a writer of adventure stories with *Treasure Island, followed in 1886 by *Kidnapped; in the same year there appeared The Strange Case of Dr *Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A collection of his poems about childhood, A Child's Garden of Verses, came out in 1885. In 1889 he and his family went to the South Pacific for his health (he had severe lung problems) and settled on the island of Samoa. Stevenson's adult novels, including anti-colonial fiction written on Samoa, have recently been gaining in critical esteem.
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