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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Edinburgh
THE WORKS of Robert Louis Stevenson are read the world over. Classic adventure stories like Treasure Island and Kidnapped, darker novels like The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the beauty and simplicity of A Child’s Garden of Verses make “RLS” compelling reading for children and adults alike.
He travelled widely, dying in Samoa – as far from and as culturally opposite to his native country – at age 44. It was his childhood in Edinburgh that shaped him. His writings are sprinkled with references to the places where he lived, studied, worked and played as boy and man. So where are Edinburgh’s Stevenson “landmarks” that so inspired him – and how have the years changed them? Let’s take a journey.
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