Abstract
From ‘R.L.S. and Some Savages on an Island’, Cornhill, 51 (Dec 1921), 706–12. The contributor had been a pupil at Henderson’s School, some 15 years later than Stevenson. He dates this recollection as after 1875, when the novelist would have been in his mid-twenties. Cramond had been a favorite spot for Stevenson and his Balfour cousins, one of whom had been given the identifying nickname from the locality. See ‘The Lantern Bearers’, first published in Scribner’s Magazine, Feb 1888, or a similar celebration of childhood haunts in ‘Memoirs of an Islet’, Memories and Portraits (1887).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Editor information
Copyright information
© 1996 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Lisle, G. (1996). A Wonderful Talker. In: Terry, R.C. (eds) Robert Louis Stevenson. Macmillan Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24355-6_11
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24355-6_11
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-0-333-65099-8
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-24355-6
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts CollectionLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)