robert louis stevenson wife Frances Fanny Matilda Van de Grift Osbourne 10 March 1840 —18 February 1914 mother Isobel Lloyd Par
robert louis stevenson wife Frances Fanny Matilda Van de Grift Osbourne 10 March 1840 —18 February 1914 mother Isobel Lloyd Paris she met and befriended Robert Louis 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 following her, but his parents refused to pay for it, so he saved for three years in order to pay his own way. In 1879, despite protests of family and friends, Stevenson went to Monterey, California, where Fanny was recovering from an emotional breakdown related to indecision about whether to leave her philandering husband. Stevenson wrote many of his most 'muscular' essays in Monterey while awaiting Fanny's decision. The lady ultimately chose Stevenson, and in May 1880, they were married in San Francisco. A few days later, the couple left for a honeymoon in the Napa Valley, where Stevenson produced his work Silverado Squatters. He later wrote The Amateur Emigrant in two parts about his passage to America: From the Clyde to Sandy Hook and Across the Plains. His middle-class friends were shocked by his travel with the lower classes; it was not published in full in his lifetime, and his father bought up most copies. In August 1880, the family moved to Great Britain, where Fanny helped to patch things up between Robert and his father. Always in search of a climate conducive to Stevenson's ailing health, the couple traveled to the Adironacks in the In 1888, they chartered the Casco out of San Francisco and sailed to Western Samoa. Later voyages on the Equator and Janet Nicoll with Lloyd followed.[1] They settled in Upolu, at their home Vailima, where Stevenson died on 3 December 1894
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