Born Edinburgh's New Town. Never a well man, he died on a small Samoan island in the Pacific while opening a bottle of wine. The effort caused a blood vessel to burst.
Some of his work: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verses.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850 - 1894, author, lived here. Erected by the Hamp...
Historian. Born into a family of gun and rifle manufacturers, he was a prolif...
Poet and critic. Born Devon. Died London. Buried in the chapel of Highgate Sc...
Author and journalist. Â Born Abingdon and brought up in Putney. Her father wa...
