The romantic life of Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their “unlikely Victorian love story” somehow worked. The contrast in their backgrounds was marked. Stevenson was from a wealthy Scottish family and had recently passed the bar to … Read more