Definition of Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
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 (current term)
Robert Louis Stevenson
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

Literary usage of Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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

1. Fifty Years of English Song: Selections from the Poets of the Reign of Victoria by Henry Fitz Randolph (1888)
"... Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson. THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL. A NAKED house, a naked moor, A shivering pool before the door, A garden bare of flowers and fruit, ..."

2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"Stevenson, Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne (Mrs. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson) d. 1914. Robert Louis Stevenson's tributes to his wife. por. Cur. Opinion. ..."

3. English Prose: Selections by Henry Craik (1896)
"... Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, who dropped his third name for the purposes of authorship, was born in Edinburgh, November 1850, the son of Thomas ..."

4. English Prose: Selections by Henry Craik (1907)
"... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON [Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, who dropped his third name for the purposes of authorship, was born in Edinburgh, November 1850, ..."

5. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"[ROBERT Louis BALFOUR STEVENSON, cosmopolitan novelist, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, November 13, 1850. Intended for an engineer, and then studying law ..."

6. The Makers of English Fiction by William James Dawson (1905)
"XVII ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, born in Edinburgh, November I3th, 1850. Published "An Inland Voyage," 1878; "Travel) with a ..."

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