Definition of Robert Louis Stevenson

1. Noun. Scottish author (1850-1894).

Exact synonyms: Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, Stevenson
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Frost
Robert Fulton
Robert Graves
Robert Gray
Robert Herrick
Robert Hooke
Robert Hutchings Goddard
Robert I
Robert James Fischer
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
Robert Joffrey
Robert King Merton
Robert Koch
Robert Lee Frost
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (current term)
Robert Lowell
Robert M. Yerkes
Robert MacGregor
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Robert Mearns Yerkes
Robert Merton
Robert Mills
Robert Mitchum
Robert Morris
Robert Motherwell
Robert Nesta Marley
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Orr
Robert Owen

Literary usage of Robert Louis Stevenson

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bookman (1897)
"The illustration on the cover is repeated on page 9. XIX. BEAU AUSTIN : A Play in Four Acts by William Ernest Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) BY ROBERT BRIDGES |N HIS illuminating essay <The Lantern-Bearers,' which in a very few pages seems to bear the secret ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1900)
"Tlie Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his Family and Friends. ... The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Twenty-eight vols. 1894-98. Edinburgh edition. ..."

4. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"To Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson. Box HILL, DORKING, Oct. 27, 1886. DEAR MRS. STEVENSON,—Cole, our gardener, bids me tell you that the slips and cuttings have ..."

5. The Book of the Short Story by Alexander Jessup, Henry Seidel Canby (1903)
"MARKHEIM MARKHEIM, written ‘by Robert Louis Stevenson ... Graham Balfour says, in The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson: “A subject much in his thoughts at ..."

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