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Lloyd Osbourne was born in San Francisco to Fanny Vandegrift and Samuel Osbourne, a lieutenant on the State Governor's staff. They had married when Fanny was just seventeen years of age, and Lloyd's elder sister Belle was born the following year.
Frances Matilda Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson (10 March 1840 – 18 February 1914) was an American magazine writer. 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.
After Louis’ death, Lloyd became Vice Consul General for the United States to Samoa and married Katharine Durham in Hawaii in 1896. Together they had two sons, Alan and Louis. The rest of Lloyd’s life was spent as an author, actively published but never achieving much acclaim.
Eventually she moved back to San Francisco and lived with Lloyd and his wife, working on her husband's literary estate. She published a new edition of his collected works, worked on his biography of Father Damien , and organized her journal of their South Seas travels.
An educated woman, Fanny was married at 17 to Samuel Osbourne, an officer in the Union Army. They had a daughter, Isobel “Belle”, a year later. Their lives changed when Samuel went to serve in the Civil War.
Lloyd married his first wife, Katharine Durham, in Honolulu in 1896. The couple had two children, Alan and Louis, and divorced in 1914. In 1897, Lloyd became the American Vice Consul in Samoa to the United States.
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Frances (Fanny) Matilda Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson was the wife of the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.While in Paris, she met and befriended Stevenson. Convinced of his talent, she encouraged and inspired him.
