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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“This is the biography of an extraordinary family, an impossible sea & an engineering miracle”

Bella Bathurst’s THE LIGHTHOUSE STEVENSONS tells the story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors – 4 generations who designed & built the great lights around Scotland

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Bella Bathurst
Bella Bathurst · The Lighthouse Stevensons - Bella Bathurst‘Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not farm from one of the works of my ancestors. The Bell Rock stands monument for my grandfather, the Skerry Vhor for my Uncle Alan, and when the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland, I am proud to think they burn […]
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“The necessity for marked characteristics in coast illumination increases with the number of lights…”

—“On a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses” – one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s lesser-known works, read before the Royal Scottish Society of Arts on 27 March 1871, & awarded the Society’s Silver Medal

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Assoc for Scottish Literature

Did Walter Scott Invent Scotland?
Dr Juliet Shields’ 2017 Gresham College Fulbright lecture

Walter Scott’s phenomenally popular novels & poems created an image of Scotland as a land of sublime scenery & heroic chivalry. Why is it Scott’s version, rather than any of the many other 19th-century literary representations of Scotland, that has endured in the popular imagination?

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youtube.com/watch?v=vxBpDfV6SHE

YouTubeDid Sir Walter Scott Invent Scotland? - Dr Juliet ShieldsBy Gresham College
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In the churchyard of St George in the East, London, is a ruined redbrick building. This building used to be a mortuary and is where one of the Jack the Ripper victims, Elizabeth Stride, was brought and identified. One witness, a stallholder, said he had sold a man accompanying the victim grapes. Another witness claimed the victim was her sister and had been awoken on the night of the murder by a ghostly kiss on the cheek - a claim exploded at the inquest when her sister turned up and denounced the woman for giving her a bad name. The structure later served as a nature museum before being abandoned during World War II. St George in the East was designed by 'the Devil's Architect' Nicholas Hawksmoor. Some claim Hawksmoor's tendency to decorate his churches with 'pagan' symbols - such as pyramids and obelisks - has made them centres of dark energies. #London #folklore #psychogeography #churches #crime #architecture #weird #history #urban #Victorian #occult #gothic

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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“He has never made his points better than in that half-humorous, half-tragical recital”
—Henry James, on ACROSS THE PLAINS – Stevenson’s memoir of his American journey

Read more in “Expanding Horizons: to California with Robert Louis Stevenson”

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thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/05/ex

The Bottle Imp · Expanding Horizons: To California with Robert Louis Stevenson - The Bottle ImpTravel was vitally important to Stevenson the man and the writer. It accorded with his temperament, affording a conduit for his rebelliousness, his reaction against both paternal influence and the constraints of the Scottish cultural and religious background (of which he wrote, ‘One thing, indeed, is not to be learned in Scotland, and that is […]
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

#OTD, 7 Aug, 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson boarded the SS Devonia to make the ten-day passage from Greenock to New York to pursue his thwarted relationship with Fanny Osbourne. In THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT he gives a vivid, sharp, & engaging account of his (impoverished) travels to & in America – read the first 5 chapters free 👇

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