Ask most people about the heavyweights of late Victorian fiction and they will probably mention the likes of Thomas Hardy, George Eliot or Oscar Wilde.Raise Robert Louis Stevenson, however, and you’ll struggle to attract more than dusty affection: his work is usually seen as the stuff of old illustrated copies of boys' adventures such as Treasure Island and Kidnapped, left … [Read more...] about Overdue homecoming for RLS
Linda Dryden
About Linda Dryden
Linda Dryden is Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University. Her most recent book is Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin de Siecle Literary Scene (Palgrave Macmillan 2015). Co-editor of The Journal of Stevenson Studies, created and administers the Robert Louis Stevenson website: www.robert-louis-stevenson.org, and co-founded RLS Day in Edinburgh