Select Bibliography

C.C. Abbott (ed.), Letters of G.M. Hopkins to Robert Bridges (Oxford, 1955)

Damian Atkinson (ed.), The Selected Letters of W.E. Henley (Aldershot, 2000)

Graham Balfour, The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson (London and New York, 1901), 2 vols

Bella Bathurst, The Lighthouse Stevensons (London, 1999)

Adelaide Boodle, RLS and his Sine Qua Non (London, 1926)

Jorge Luis Borges, Borges on Writing (London, 1974)

Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions, ed. Eliot Weinberger (London, 1999)

George E. Brown, A Book of RLS (London, 1919)

Richard Burgin (ed.), Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations (Jackson, 1998)

Jenni Calder, RLS: A Life Study (London, 1980)

Elsie Noble Caldwell, Last Witness for Robert Louis Stevenson (Norman, Oklahoma, 1960)

Evan Charteris (ed.), The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (London, 1931)

G.K. Chesterton, Robert Louis Stevenson (London, 1927)

William B. Churchward, My Consulate in Samoa (London, 1887)

W.E. Clarke, Reminiscences of Robert Louis Stevenson (London Missionary Society pamphlet, n.d.)

Sidney Colvin, Memories and Notes (London, 1921)

Sidney Colvin, Robert Louis Stevenson: His Work and Personality (London, 1924)

John Connell, W.E. Henley (London, 1949)

David Daiches, Robert Louis Stevenson, A Re-evaluation (London, 1946)

J.W. Davidson, Samoa mo Samoa: The Emergence of the Independent State of Western Samoa (Melbourne, 1967)

Davos as Health-Resort: A Handbook (1907)

A. Grove Day (ed.), Travels in Hawaii (Honolulu, 1973)

Leon Edel, The Life of Henry James (London, 1953–72), 5 vols

Leon Edel (ed.), The Diary of Alice James (New York, 1964)

Leon Edel (ed.), Henry James, Letters (Cambridge, Mass., 1974–84), 4 vols

Edwin M. Eigner, Robert Louis Stevenson and Romantic Tradition (Princeton, 1966)

Malcolm Elwin, The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson (London, 1950)

Sir Alfred Ewing, An Engineer’s Outlook (London, n.d.)

Delancey Ferguson and Marshall Waingrow (eds), R.L.S.: Stevenson’s Letters to Charles Baxter (London and New Haven, 1956)

Isobel Strong Field, Memories of Vailima (1902)

Isobel Strong Field, This Life I’ve Loved (London, 1937)

Ford Madox Ford, Memories and Impressions (Harmondsworth, 1971)

J.C. Furnas, Voyage to Windward: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson (London, 1952)

Francis Galton, Record of Family Faculties: Consisting of Tabular Forms and Directions for Entering Data, with an Explanatory Preface (London, 1884)

Carlo Ginzburg, No Island is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective (New York, 2000)

Edmund Gosse, Critical Kit-Kats (London, 1913)

Graham Greene, Collected Essays (London, 1999)

Phyllis Grosskurth (ed.), The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds (London, 1984)

Charles Guthrie, Robert Louis Stevenson: Some Personal Recollections (Edinburgh, 1924)

J.A. Hammerton (ed.), Stevensoniana: An Anecdotal Life and Appreciation of Robert Louis Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1907)

J.R. Hammond, A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion (London, 1984)

J.R. Hammond, A Robert Louis Stevenson Chronology (Basingstoke, 1997)

James D. Hart (ed.), From Scotland to Silverado (Cambridge, Mass., 1966)

The Works of W.E. Henley (London, 1908), 7 vols

[George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke, and George H. Kingsley], South Sea Bubbles by the Earl and the Doctor (Leipzig, 1874)

Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (eds), The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (London, 2000)

Richard Holmes, Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (London, 1985)

W.E. Houghton, The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830–1870 (New Haven, 1957)

Linda K. Hughes, Strange Bedfellows: W.E. Henley and Feminist Fashion History (Bicester, 1997)

Anne Roller Issler, Happier for his Presence: San Francisco and Robert Louis Stevenson (Palo Alto, 1949)

Anne Roller Issler, Our Mountain Hermitage: Silverado and Robert Louis Stevenson (Palo Alto, 1950)

Michael Jacobs, The Good and Simple Life: Artist Colonies in Europe and America (Oxford, 1985)

Henry James, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’, in Notes on Novelists (London, 1914)

Arthur Johnstone, Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific (London, 1905)

Frederick R. Karl, Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives (New York, 1979)

Frederick R. Karl et al. (eds), Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge, 1983–2002), 6 vols

H.W. Kent, Dr Hyde and Mr Stevenson: The Life of the Reverend Charles Ewen Hyde (Rutland, Vt, 1973)

Wayne Koestenbaum, Double Talk: The Erotics of Male Literary Collaboration (New York and London, 1989)

Andrew Lang, Adventures Among Books (London, 1903)

Alexandra Lapierre (trans. Carol Cosman), Fanny Stevenson: Muse, Adventuress and Romantic Enigma (London, 1995)

J.C. Levenson, Ernest Samuels et al. (eds), The Letters of Henry Adams (Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1982–88), 6 vols

W.G. Lockett, Robert Louis Stevenson at Davos (London, 1934)

W.H. Low, A Chronicle of Friendships 1873–1900 (London, 1908)

E.V. Lucas (ed.), Her Infinite Variety (London, 1908)

E.V. Lucas, The Colvins and their Friends (London, 1928)

E.V. Lucas, Reading, Writing and Remembering: A Literary Record (London, 1932)

S.S. McClure, My Autobiography (London, 1914)

J.A. MacCulloch, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Bridge of Allan (1927)

Sr Martha Mary McGaw, Stevenson in Hawaii (Honolulu, 1950)

George L. McKay (compiler), A Stevenson Library. Catalogue of a Collection of Writings by and about Robert Louis Stevenson Formed by Edwin J. Beinecke (New Haven, 1951–64), 6 vols

George L. McKay, Some Notes on Robert Louis Stevenson, his Finances and his Agents and his Publishers (New Haven, 1958)

Margaret Mackay, Island Boy: Robert Louis Stevenson and his Step-Grandson in Samoa (London, 1969)

Margaret Mackay, The Violent Friend: The Story of Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson 1840–1914 (London, 1969)

Moray McLaren, Stevenson and Edinburgh, A Centenary Study (London, 1950)

Frank McLynn, Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography (London, 1993)

Paul Maixner (ed.), Robert Louis Stevenson: The Critical Heritage (London, 1981)

Flora Masson, Victorians All (Edinburgh, 1931)

Rosaline Masson (ed.), I Can Remember Robert Louis Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1925)

Barry Menikoff, Robert Louis Stevenson and ‘The Beach of Falesá’: A Study in Victorian Publishing (Edinburgh, 1984)

Barry Menikoff (ed.), Kidnapped, or the Lad with the Silver Button (San Marino, Cal., 1999)

Robert Mighall (ed.), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (London, 2002)

Karl Miller, Doubles: Studies in Literary History (Oxford, 1985)

D.G. Moir, Pentland Walks: Their Literary and Historical Associations (Edinburgh, 1977)

George Monteiro (ed.), The Correspondence of Henry James and Henry Adams (Baton Rouge, 1992)

H.J. Moors, With Stevenson in Samoa (London, 1911)

Roy Nickerson, Robert Louis Stevenson in California: A Remarkable Courtship (San Francisco, 1982)

Adam Nicolson, The Hated Wife: Carrie Kipling 1862–1939 (London, 2001)

Andrew Noble (ed.), From the Clyde to California: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Emigrant Journey (Aberdeen, 1985)

Lloyd Osbourne, An Intimate Portrait of R.L.S. (New York, 1924)

Hesketh Pearson, Beerbohm Tree: His Life and Laughter (London, 1988)

Arthur Wing Pinero, Robert Louis Stevenson: The Dramatist, a lecture with an introduction by Clayton Hamilton (New York, 1914)

W.F. Prideaux (revised Livingston), A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (London, 1918)

[Walter Pringle], The Memoirs of Walter Pringle of Greenknow, ed. W. Wood (Edinburgh, 1847)

Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate (eds), The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy (Oxford, 1978–88), 5 vols

Graham Robb, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century (London, 2003)

Nellie Vandegrift Sanchez, The Life of Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson (1920)

Alan Sandison, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Appearance of Modernism (London, 1996)

Herbert M. Schueller and Robert L. Peters, The Letters of J.A. Symonds (Detroit, 1967–69), 3 vols

Marcel Schwob, Oeuvres (Paris, 2002)

Elaine Showalter, Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle (New York, 1990; London, 1991)

Eve Blantyre Simpson, Robert Louis Stevenson (Boston and London, 1906)

Robert T. Skinner (ed.), Cummy’s Diary: A Diary Kept by Robert Louis Stevenson’s Nurse Alison Cunningham While Travelling with him on the Continent During 1863 (London, 1926)

Janet Adam Smith, Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record of Friendship and Criticism (London, 1948)

Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor and Aids and its Metaphors (London, 1991)

Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson, The Cruise of the Janet Nichol (London, 1915)

Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson, Our Samoan Adventure, ed. Charles Neider (London, 1956)

Margaret Isabella Stevenson, From Saranac to the Marquesas and Beyond (London, 1903)

Margaret Isabella Stevenson, Letters from Samoa 1891–95 (London, 1906)

Robert Stevenson, Account of the Bell Rock Lighthouse, Including the Details of the Erection and Peculiar Structure of that Edifice (Edinburgh, n.d.)

Robert Louis Stevenson, Collected Works, Vailima Edition (London, 1923), 26 vols

Robert Louis Stevenson, Collected Poems, ed. Janet Adam Smith (London and New York, second edition 1971)

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays, ed. Jeremy Treglown (London, 1988)

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Collected Shorter Fiction, ed. Peter Stoneley (London, 1991)

Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays and Poems, ed. Claire Harman (London, 1992)

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Complete Short Stories, ed. Ian Bell (Edinburgh, 1993)

‘A Layman’ [Thomas Stevenson], The Immutable Laws of Nature in Relation to God’s Providence (Edinburgh and London, 1868)

Thomas Stevenson, Christianity Confirmed by Jewish and Heathen Testimony and Deductions from Physical Science (Edinburgh, 1877)

Roger G. Swearingen, The Prose Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Guide (London, 1980)

Robert Taylor, Saranac: America’s Magic Mountain (Boston, 1986)

Una Taylor, Guests and Memories: Annals of a Seaside Villa (Oxford, 1924)

R.C. Terry (ed.), Robert Louis Stevenson: Interviews and Recollections (Basingstoke, 1995)

Ann Thwaite, Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape (Oxford, 1985)

Edward L.Trudeau, Autobiography (Philadelphia, 1916)

Mark Twain, Roughing It (Mark Twain Library edition, Berkeley, 1995)

Robert Mackenzie Watson, History of Samoa (Wellington, 1908)

Roderick Watson (ed.), Robert Louis Stevenson, Shorter Scottish Fiction (Edinburgh, 1995)

J. Weber, Davos (Zurich and London, c.1880)

Margaret B. Wright, ‘Bohemian Days’, Scribner’s Monthly, vol. 16 (May 1878), pp.121–9

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS ABOUT STEVENSON

Scott Ashley, ‘Primitivism, Celticism and Morbidity in the Atlantic fin de siècle’, Symbolism, Decadence and the Fin de Siècle: French and European Perspectives, ed. P. McGuinness (Exeter, 2000)

Daniel Balderston, ‘Borges’s Frame of Reference: The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson’ (Princeton University PhD thesis, 1981)

Hilary J. Beattie, ‘Father and Son: The Origins of the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’, Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 56 (2001), pp.317–60

Alexander Clunas, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson: Precursor of the Post-Moderns?’, Cencrastus, 6 (1981), pp.9–11

Alan E. Guttmacher and J.R. Callahan, ‘Did Robert Louis Stevenson Have Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia?’, American Journal of Medical Genetics, 91 (2000)

Stephen Heath, ‘Psychopathia Sexualis: Stevenson’s Strange Case’, Critical Quarterly, 28 (1986), pp.93–108

Edgar C. Knowlton, ‘A Russian Influence on Stevenson’, Modern Philology, vol. XIV, no. 8 (December 1916), pp.449–54

Vladimir Nabokov, ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’, Lectures on Literature, ed. Fredson Bowers (London, 1980), pp.179–205

Andrew Nash, ‘“The Dead Should be Protected from Their Own Carelessness”: Collected Editions of Robert Louis Stevenson 1894–1924’, The Culture of Collected Editions (Basingstoke, 2003), pp.111–27

Julia Reid, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson and the Evolutionary Science’ (St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, D.Phil thesis, 2002)

Belinda Thomson, ‘A Frenchman and a Scot in the South Seas’, Van Gogh Museum Journal (2003), pp.57–70

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