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  1. Patricia M. Collins (April 14, 1927 - March 5, 2024) was an American civic leader and politician who served as the mayor of Caribou, Maine from 1981 to 1982. She has chaired numerous local and state boards and organizations, including the Caribou School Board, the Maine Committee for Judicial Responsibility and Disability, Catholic Charities ...

  2. Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on 13 November 1850 to Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife, Margaret Isabella (born Balfour, 1829–1897). He was christened Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson. At about age 18, he changed the spelling of "Lewis" to "Louis", and he dropped "Balfour ...

  3. 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 ...

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  5. The Stevenson House, is a historic two-story Spanish Colonial style building located at 530 Houston Street in Monterey, California. It was a boarding house called the French Hotel, built circa 1836. The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson lived there in 1879, writing and courting his future wife. It is now a museum and property of the ...

  6. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, but travelled widely and in 1888 he and his family began a three-year tour of the South Pacific, eventually settling in Samoa. In 1890 Stevenson purchased 314 acres (127 ha) of land and began to build a home there; by 1891 his mansion Villa Vailima was completed, named after the nearby village .

  7. The most highly recommended Robert Louis Stevenson biography currently available is: Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Claire Harmann, Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. Review: Explore the exciting life of Robert Louis Stevenson through the words of Claire Harmann. This is a great, accessible work for anyone ...

  8. 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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