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Frances Matilda Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson (10 March 1840 – 18 February 1914) was an American magazine writer. [1] [2] She became a supporter and later the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, and the mother of Isobel Osbourne, Samuel Lloyd Osbourne, and Hervey Stewart Osbourne.
Life as Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson. On May 19, 1880, Louis and Fanny married in San Francisco. The two stayed together for the rest of Stevenson’s life – much of which was spent trying to keep him healthy and seeking warm climates in which to live. After Louis died in 1894 in Samoa, Fanny suffered from depression and poor health.
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Family. Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson. Thomas Stevenson (father) Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson (mother) Lloyd Osbourne. Isobel Osbourne (step-daughter) Austin Strong (step-grandson) The Lighthouse Stevensons. Robert Stevenson (grandfather) Alan Stevenson (uncle) David Stevenson (uncle) David Alan Stevenson (cousin)
Nov 13, 2013 · Painted at Bournemouth in the summer of 1885, John Singer Sargent’s portrait, Robert Louis Stevenson and his Wife, which was on loan to the Princeton Art Museum some years ago, has to be one of the strangest images Sargent ever put on canvas. For one thing, Mrs. Stevenson is seated off to the side, at first glance barely distinguishable from ...
Samuel Lloyd Osbourne (1868-1947), known as Lloyd, was RLS’s step-son. He was born in San Francisco to Samuel and Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne. Lloyd went with his mother and sister Belle to Europe when they were pursuing their art studies. In 1876 when they went to Grez, the family met RLS.
Jul 23, 1995 · Take the scene in 1876 when Robert Louis Stevenson, 25, meets Mrs. Fanny Vandergrift Osbourne, 36, an American woman who has left her husband in San Francisco to study art in France and is...
Robert Louis Balfour stevenson (1850-1894) A brief summary of Stevenson’s life. For more information see our recommended biographies. An Imaginative Childhood (1850-1867) Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was born November 13, 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland and was the only child of respectable middle-class parents. His father, Thomas, belonged to a family of engineers who had built most […]
