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Robert Louis Stevenson's biographers are sharply divided over his American wife Frances (Fanny) Van de Grift (1840-1914), depicting her either as a muse, a saintly martyr or a dominating shrew.
Th. 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. He became deeply attached to her, but Fanny returned abruptly to California. Stevenson announced his intention of ...
In 1876 Robert Louis Stevenson met and fell in love with Fanny Osbourne, an American separated from her husband. She returned to California in 1878. Stevenson followed in 1879. His adventures, including nearly dying and eking out a precarious living in Monterey and San Francisco, culminated in marriage to Fanny (by then divorced) in 1880.
RM D88KXE – STEVENSON/FANNY/AVA. RM ERHRBP – Fanny Vandergrift Osbourne Stevenson - wife of Robert Louis Stevenson: 10 March 1840 —18 February 1914. RLS: Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, 13 November 1850–3 December 1894. RM 2B8620X – ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) Scottish traveler and novelist with his wife Fanny in ...
Feb 21, 2014 · Even less has been written about Fanny. The most recent biography of her, “Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny” (Carroll & Graf) by the French writer Alexandra LaPierre, was released in 1995. Louis, as Stevenson was known, and Fanny were two very different people.
Dec 10, 2013 · Fanny Osbourne Vandegrift Stevenson during her visit to Scotland and England (The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Vandegrift Sanchez) The Stevensons traveled constantly for nearly a decade after their marriage, trying to find a climate that would provide some relief for his bronchiectasis.
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 ...
