Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their ...

The major novels of Robert Louis Stevenson contain few female characters—in “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” the sole adult feminine presence is a house maid—but there is no doubt about the ...

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