The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
RLS 2026 (Venice, 11–12 May 2026) Day 2 Waking in Venice, then going for a walk outside, is a simple pleasure: the maze of quiet streets, the views from bridges, the themes and variations of the houses, the picturesque way you do not take and is never re-found, odd workshops just opening, a barge of [ ]
RLS 2026 (Venice, 11–12 May 2026) Day 1 Arriving in Venice—is any city arrival more memorable? The Venetian lagoon persuades you—despite the striped posts marking navigation channels—that this is indeed the open sea with an archipelago of islands, and the first sight of the sea is always magical to us inlanders. At the end of [ ]
ed. Richard Dury with Mafalda Cipollone, original transcription by Elaine Greig (The Lamplight Press, 2026) . This new publication is a transcription of the notebook kept by Stevenson during his ‘inland voyage’, with an introduction, a map and appendices. It contains numerous passages with no equivalents in the published text and allows a precise reconstruction [ ]
Stevenson s (incomplete) autograph manuscript of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has been part of the Morgan Library in New York since 1909. Now digital images (for high-definition and enlargeable images, press the zoom button) of every page have been made on the LIbrary s website. The extant MS covers just over half of [ ]
This is the second part of my personal impressions of the Bochum Stevenson Conference that took place from 27 to 29 June 2024. At the cost of some inaccuracies, I have tried to represent some of the experience of the event, of the participants and of the momentary conjunction of their trajectories. Friday morning The [ ]
This account of the 2024 Stevenson Conference , held from 27 to 29 June 2024 at the University of the Ruhr in Bochum, is based on notes made at the conference and personal impressions Arriving in Bochum The small city of Bochum is situated in the centre of the traditional coal and steel region of [ ]
Many thanks to on-site research by Hilary Beattie in the Fales Library in New York In December 1891, Stevenson wrote to Colvin, I have gone crazy over Bourget s Sensations d Italie (L7, 205). In a former post, his marked copy not then being accessible, I tried to guess what aspects could have made Stevenson so enthusiastic. [ ]
Stevenson visited Germany on four occasions: 1. Homburg (now Bad Homburg vor der Höhe) with his parents, July—August 1862; 2. The following year travelling home from Italy with his parents (Munich—Augsburg—Nuremberg—Frankfurt—Cologne) in May 1863; 3. Frankfurt during his first summer vacation as a student with Walter Simpson, July—August 1872; 4. And finally, for a few [ ]
There s no real need to imagine the plan of the roundhouse in Kidnapped: you understand that it s a single structure on the top deck of the Covenant with doors, windows and a skylight and understand their relative positions. If you can t work out how the dangerous openings relate to fore and aft, port and starboard, [ ]
A post contributed by Katherine Ashley In 1891, Henry James sent Stevenson a copy of Paul Bourget’s Sensations d’Italie (1891). The book gave Stevenson a ‘literal thrill’ and he quickly requested more of his works. Bourget (1852-1935) was a poet, novelist, and playwright, but today he is mainly read by literary historians for his astute [ ]