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
See also the extensive reading lists, filmography and databases at www.unibg.it/rls
Index
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Academy (journal) 145, 251
Adams, Henry 407–8
Addis, George 169–70
Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium 330
Ah Fu (cook) 375, 399
Appin murder trial (1752) 434
Archer, William 212–13, 288, 325, 384, 413
Athenaeum (journal) 145
Babington, Professor Churchill 80, 82–3, 84
Babington, Matilde (Maud) Whytt 80, 84
Baillie, Joanna 30
Bain, Bob 49
Baker, Andrew 331
Balfour, Arthur 321
Balfour, Dr George William (RLS’s uncle) 76, 201, 203, 265, 438
Balfour, (Sir) Graham (RLS’s cousin and biographer) 36, 88, 231, 308, 423, 428, 438–9, 451: Life of Robert Louis Stevenson 159, 439, 461–2
Balfour, Henrietta (‘Etta’, RLS’s cousin) 122
Balfour, Jane Whyte (RLS’s aunt) 25, 28–9, 31
Balfour, John 15
Balfour, Lewis (RLS’s cousin) 92
Balfour, Revd Lewis (RLS’s grandfather) 29, 41
Ballantyne, R.M. 33
Barbizon (France) 119–20
Barrie, (Sir) James Matthew 426, 435
Baxter, Charles 71, 160, 332, 339, 426, 447: appearance 69–70
background 65–6
dislike of Fanny 205
and Henley’s row with RLS 347–8
relationship with RLS 66, 231–2, 348
slide into alcoholism 451–2
visits RLS at Hyères 257, 259
Beerbohm Tree, Herbert 267, 268, 412
Bell Rock lighthouse 6–9
Bennett, Arnold 453
Béranger, Pierre-Jean de 50
Besant, Walter 279
Bisset, Revd Archibald 72
Bloomer, Hiram Reynolds 120
Bohemian Club 134, 135
Boodle, Adelaide 289
Borges, Jorge Luis 110, 158, 307
Bough, Sam 62
Bournemouth 275–7, 288–92, 317, 323
Brown, Horatio F. 210, 213, 233
Brown, Robert Glasgow 65
Buckland, Jack (‘Tin Jack’) 401, 402
Burgess, Frank Gellett 459, 461
Burlingame, Edward Livermore 327, 329
Burlington Lodge Academy (Isleworth) 31
Carson, Mary 190
Carter, Mary 421–2
Casco (yacht) 354, 357, 369–70
Cedercrantz, Otto Conrad Waldemar 408, 440–1
Charcot, Jean-Martin 300
Chesterton, G.K. 288
Church of Scotland 110
Church of Scotland Home and Foreign Missionary Record 43
Clark, Dr Andrew 95–6, 203, 235
Cole, PC William 274
Colinton Manse 27–30
Colvin, (Sir) Sidney 58, 82–3, 95, 103, 218, 426, 461: attempt at furthering RLS’s literary career 87, 100, 107–8
background and career 83
character and appearance 83, 100
and Fanny Stevenson 89, 155, 169, 200, 239, 259
reaction to RLS’s decision to live in Samoa 397, 442–3
relationship with and marriage to Frances Sitwell 82–3, 86–8, 89, 106, 463
relationship with RLS 87–8, 100–1, 325, 397
RLS’s journal-letters to from Samoa 409, 410–12
victim of robbery 165
view of The Amateur Emigrant 188
view of Deacon Brodie 264–5
view of Weir of Hermiston 453
Conrad, Joseph 82, 398, 429, 446, 463
Cornhill Magazine 107, 119, 141, 191
Covenanters 38
Cox, Sergeant Thomas 274
Crawford divorce case 317
Cruikshank, John 322–3
Cunningham, Alison (‘Cummy’) 19, 224, 240: dedication of A Child’s Garden of Verses to 240–1
minor cult surrounding 25
religious views 21–2, 32
travels with Stevenson family 32–3
upbringing of RLS 19, 21, 25, 27
Curtin, John 319
Cusack-Smith, (Sir) Thomas Berry 427
Darwin, Charles 44, 72, 365
Davis, John 422, 424
Davos (Switzerland) 203–10, 216, 219–20, 230, 233
Davos Press 216
de Mattos, Katharine Elizabeth Alan (née Stevenson, RLS’s cousin) 13, 164, 293, 294, 341, 342, 343, 345, 346
Deacon Brodie 33, 110, 145, 188, 236–8: performances of 237–8, 263, 264–5
RLS’s collaboration with Henley on 165–7, 237–8, 263, 264, 265, 339
tour of America 328, 339
Dewar, Sir James 318
Dostoievsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment 286–7
Dowson, Ernest 99
Doyle, (Sir) Arthur Conan 416, 426
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde see Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The
Drummond, Kate 58
Dumont, Frédéric: Macaire 267, 268
Dunedin, Lord 122
Earraid, Isle of 64
Edinburgh Academy 27
Edinburgh University 10, 222: Speculative Society (‘Spec’) 52, 66, 70, 94
Edinburgh University Magazine 65
Eilean Glas lighthouse 4
Einfürer, Paul 406
Ellis, Henry Havelock: Studies in the Psychology of Sex 210–11
Encyclopaedia Britannica 118
Equator (schooner) 377–8
Ewing, Alfred 71, 122
Faed, James 35–6
Fairchild, Charles 323–4, 328, 334–5
Fairchild, Elizabeth 323, 334–5
Fairchild, Sally 328–9, 334–5
Fenians 273
Ferrier, James Walter 65, 232, 257–8
Field, Edward Salisbury (‘Ned’, IF’s second husband) 460
Fleming, Victor 306, 307
Ford, Ford Madox 462
Fraser’s Magazine 203
Fresnel, Leonor 8
Freud, Sigmund 300
Funk, Dr Bernard 456
Galsworthy, John 428–9
Galton, Francis 308, 365: Record of Family Faculties 1–2
Garschine, Pelagie (née Zassetsky) 101
Garschine, Sophie 101–3
Gauguin, Paul 367–8
Geddie, John 69–70
Gilbert Islands 378–84
Gladstone, William Ewart 274–5
Gordon, General Charles George 274, 320
Gosse, (Sir) Edmund William (‘Weg’) 34, 63, 107, 165, 168, 212, 224, 414, 422–3, 424
Gosse, Philip Henry 63, 168, 224
Greene, Graham 443
Grez-sur-Loing 120–1, 140
Guthrie, Charles John (later Lord Guthrie) 69
Hackston, David 38
Haggard, Bazett Michael 408, 439
Haggard, H. Rider 398, 408, 446
Hamerton, P.G. 145–6
Hanson, Rufe 197, 199
Hardy, Thomas 294: Tess of the d’Urbervilles 294, 436–7
Harte, Bret 134
Hawaii 371–3
Hazlitt, William 230–1
Henderson, James 226
Henley, Anna (née Boyle) 118, 311
Henley, Edward John (‘Teddy’, WEH’s brother) 263, 323, 328, 339
Henley, William Ernest 43, 164, 185, 231, 323: character 117
collaboration with RLS on Deacon Brodie 165–7, 237–8, 263, 264, 265, 339
collaboration with RLS on plays 245, 265, 267–8, 270, 271
criticism of RLS after death 462
editor of Cassell’s Magazine of Art 232
and Fanny Stevenson 186, 205, 271, 342–3, 348–9
and fatherhood 311
‘final break’ with RLS 412–13
‘In Hospital’ sequence 116, 17, 118, 349
‘Invictus’ 116
letters to from RLS in Pacific 368
literary career 116–17
marriage 118
necrosis of the bone and hospitalisation 115–16
poems on RLS 117
quarrel with RLS over ‘The Nixie’ 339–50, 368–9, 412, 413
relationship with RLS 116, 117–19, 165, 213, 252
on RLS 54, 205, 220–1
view of RLS’s works 145, 188, 251
visits RLS at Hyères 257, 259
Heriot Row (Edinburgh) 19–20
Hole, William B. 72
Holmes, Richard 163
Hopkins, Gerard Manley 304
Hyde, Revd Charles McEwan 399, 400–1
Hyères-les-Palmiers 244, 257
Illustrated London News 437
Irish Home Rule 273
Jack the Ripper 305
Jacobite Rebellion 313
James, Alice 281, 282
James, Henry 107, 280–2, 286, 300n, 313, 325, 397, 461, 462, 463: relationship with RLS 212, 278–9, 281–2
view of Catriona 435–6
view of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 304
view of Fanny Stevenson 282
Japp, Alexander Hay 226
Jekyll and Hyde see Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The
Jenkin, Anne 71, 293
Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming 66–7, 70–2, 75, 158, 293
Jersey, Margaret Elizabeth, Countess of 439–40
Jersey, Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of 439
Jowett, Benjamin 290
Kalakaua, David, King of Hawaii 372
Kidnapped 42, 62, 63–4, 153, 312–17, 390: based on Appin murder 313
as a romance and novel of realism 315
RLS runs out of energy on 316–17
vision of Scotland 315
Kinnaird Head lighthouse 4
Kipling, Rudyard 398, 428
Knowlton, Edgar C. 287
Koestenbaum, Wayne 305, 312
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von: Psychopathia Sexualis 305
La Farge, John 407, 408
Lafaele (servant) 421
Lang, Andrew 27, 104, 212, 213, 384
Lapierre, Alexandra 127, 130
Laupepa, Malietoa 393, 394, 409, 450
Leigh, Captain Rupert 439
Lewis, David 43
Lister, Dr Joseph 115 ‘LJR’ (Liberty-Justice-Reverence) group 76–7, 79, 119
Lloyd, John 130, 132, 133, 134, 180–1
Lockett, W.G. 207
London (magazine) 65, 158
Low, Will Hicok 119, 122
Lucas, E.V. 86–7
Lytton, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st
Baron: Fables in Song 109
‘Strange Story’ 308
McClure, Robert 418
McClure, Samuel Sidney 329, 334, 340, 352, 414
MacDiarmid, Hugh 42
Mackay, Professor Aeneas 223 Macmillan’s Magazine 103
Mann, Thomas: The Magic Mountain 206
Mansfield, Richard 328
Marquesas Islands 360–7
Masson, Professor David 74
Masson, Flora 74–5, 322
Master of Ballantrae, The 42, 62, 315, 336–9, 349, 367, 369: criticism of ending 337
genesis 336–7
plot 338–9
reviews 384
structure 337
theme of the double 338
Mataafa Iosefo 394, 409, 439, 441, 449, 450
Maugham, William Somerset 460
Meikeljohn, John 191
Mennell, Dr Zebulon 220, 262, 265
Meredith, George 157
Miller, Karl 305
Millet, Jean-François 119
Molokai 376–7, 399
Monkhouse, Cosmo 413–14
Monterey (California) 177
Moore, George 384
Moors, Harry Jay 213, 393, 394–5, 415, 424
Morrison, Cotter 82
Moss, Kate 136, 138
Mudie’s Lending Library 252
Mull of Kintyre lighthouse 4
Myers, F.H.W. 291, 304
Nan Tok’ 382
Nei Takauti 382
New Testament 73
New York World 329
North Ronaldsay lighthouse 4
Northern Lighthouse Board 4, 7, 8
Nukahiva 360–1
Oliphant, Margaret 384, 401
O’Meara, Frank 140–1
Omond, George 65
Ori-a-Ori 369, 370
Osbourne, Belle see Strong, Belle Osbourne, Fanny see Stevenson, Fanny
Osbourne, Hervey 134, 137, 138–9
Osbourne, Isobel see Strong, Isobel Osbourne, Katharine (née Durham) 460
Osbourne, Samuel (FS’s first husband) 126–7, 128–9, 130–1, 132, 133–4, 136–7, 139, 152, 154, 178, 187, 190, 310, 352
Osbourne, Samuel Lloyd (‘Sam’, later known as Lloyd) 133, 146, 197, 265, 271, 320, 327, 369: character 311
collaboration with RLS on The Wrecker 386–91
collaborations with RLS 312, 384
An Intimate Portrait of R.L.S. 197, 296–7
postscript 460
relationship with RLS 216, 309, 310, 311, 312, 351, 374
RLS’s view of writing 373–4
in Samoa 424
and writing 310–11, 334, 351
and The Wrong Box 351–2, 373
Otis, Captain Albert H. 356–7, 359–60, 368, 371
Pall Mall Gazette 284
Pall Mall Magazine 295
Parry, Maude 40
Paul, Charles Kegan 215
Phillips, Stephen 82
Pilsach, Baron Arnold Senfft von 408, 440–1
Pinero, (Sir) Arthur Wing 270
Portfolio (magazine) 99, 107
Prince Otto 109, 110, 245, 246, 247–52, 291, 294–5, 390: character of Otto 250–1
plot 247–8
reviews 251
RLS’s anxiety over 251, 252
sex in 235, 248–9
Pringle, Walter 54
Psychological Society of Edinburgh 74
Raffalovitch, Mark-André 212
Rearden, Timothy 134–5, 180
Reid, Captain Dennis 377, 378
Rennie, John 7–8
Rick, Adolf 380
Rix, Julian 178
Roch, Valentine 257, 291, 325, 375–6
Rodin, Auguste 277
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of 441
Royal Scottish Society of Arts 3, 66
Ruedi, Dr Karl 203, 206, 235, 332
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus 330
Samoa 282, 357, 365, 371, 391: cost of building work and upkeep at Vailima 415
effect of RLS’s isolation in 433–4
feasts and parties at Vailima 450–1
journalists visit RLS on 427
life at Vailima 405–7, 409–10, 411–12, 420–2, 423, 427
photograph of Stevenson household by Davis 422, 424
political affairs 393–4
reliance on Moors by RLS 395
rise in RL
S’s prestige after publication of ‘The Bottle Imp’ 415–16
RLS’s arrival in 392–3
RLS’s interest in politics of 440–1, 442
RLS’s routine 423
RLS’s household 419–22
Stevensons’ decision to set up home in 396–8
visit to by Lady Jersey 439–40
war breaks out on (1893) 449, 450
writing on 415–17, 423, 433
San Francisco 190–2: earthquake (1906) 464
Sanchez, Alfredo 178–9
Sanchez, Nellie (née Vandegrift, FS’s sister) 177–9, 190, 194, 447
Sandwich Islands 358, 372
Saranac Lake (New York State) 330–5
Sargent, John Singer 277–8, 323
Saturday Review 95, 99
Savage Island 402
Savile Club 106–7, 170
Schwob, Marcel 426, 428
Scots Observer 368
Scott, Sir Walter 9, 42, 314, 423: Tale of Old Mortality 15
Scott, Revd William 194
Scottish Highlanders 366
Scottish language 41–2
Scottish Renaissance 42
Scribner’s Magazine 327, 330, 332, 334, 342, 373, 401
Selph, Sir Charles 378
Sewell, Harold Marsh 408
Shelley, Jane St John, Lady 289–90, 426–7
Shelley, Sir Percy Florence 289, 290
Shorter, Clement 418
Showalter, Elaine 304–5
Silverado (California) 196–9
Simele, Henry 406–7
Simoneau, Jules 183–4, 188
Simpson, Evelyn Blantyre (‘Eve’) 55, 58
Simpson, Sir Walter Grindlay 48, 52, 76, 140, 142, 259
Simpson, William (‘Willie’) 120, 125, 140
Sinclair, Amy 62
Sitwell, Revd Albert Hurt 81, 86, 90
Sitwell, Frances 80–2, 105–6, 147, 155, 217–18: admirers of 82
character 82
correspondence with RLS 84, 85–6, 90–2, 94, 99, 102, 113, 141
and death of son Bertie 218
first marriage 81
first meeting with RLS 81
relationship with and marriage to Colvin 82–3, 86–8, 89, 106, 463
relationship with RLS 81, 82, 84, 85–6, 87–8, 90, 102–3, 106, 112–4, 218
RLS’s love for 85–6, 92, 106, 112, 114
separation from husband 105
Sitwell, Francis Albert (‘Bertie’) 84, 218
Skelt’s Juvenile Drama 30, 267, 268
Skerry Vohr lighthouse 13