R.L.S. and His Sine Qua Non, Flashlights from Skerryvore
A young neighbour became Stevenson pupil and friend, and wrote down the Bournemouth household nearly four decades after he died.
Boodle was a young neighbour of the Stevensons in Bournemouth, and became Robert Louis Stevenson pupil and friend. Thirty-seven years after his death she set down her memories of the household at Skerryvore, giving an unusually domestic account of a writer whose life is usually told through voyages and illness rather than through afternoons.
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Thirty-seven years later, with Stevenson long gone, she set down her memories of life at Skerryvore in the slender, utterly delightful 1926 gem R.L.S. and His Sine Qua Non, Flashlights from Skerryvore (public library | public domain). Punctuating her loving recollections is a series of invaluable writing lessons from one of the greatest storytellers our civilization has produced.
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