He was born on 13 November 1850, in Edinburgh, the son of Thomas Stevenson, a lighthouse engineer, and his wife Margaret.
The city of Stevenson’s birth was a source of inspiration to him all his life. But its damp climate contributed to the serious respiratory illness which began in his childhood.
Stevenson attended a variety of schools including the Edinburgh Academy, with frequent interruptions because of ill-health.

At Edinburgh University, he initially studied engineering to follow his father’s profession, changing to law in 1871. He was a founder of the Edinburgh University Magazine and already extremely interested in writing.

On holiday in France he met Fanny Osborne. Fanny was an American, ten years Stevenson’s senior, with an unsatisfactory marriage and two children.
It seems that Stevenson fell in love with her at once!

In 1876, Stevenson took a canoeing trip with his friend Sir Walter Simpson and, two years later, in 1878, “An Inland Voyage”, an account of the canoeing holiday, was published.
He took a walking tour with a donkey in France and recorded the experience in “travels with a donkey”.

In 1880, Stevenson married Fanny in San Francisco. He returned to Scotland to visit his parents.
He began writing “Treasure Island”, which was his most famous work and first real popular success, inspired by a map of an imaginary island which had been given to his stepson.

In 1884, in France, he fell dangerously ill with a severe pulmonary haemorrhage.

Between 1884 and 1887 he lived in England, on the south coast, because of its climate and he published “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” in 1886.

In 1889, he bought a house and settled in Vailima, Western Samoa, ever more famous and quite wealthy. He was buried in Samoa in 1894.

Yours faithfully (nel mezzo alla pagina; sotto sempre al centro firma, e poi scrivi il tuo nome in stampatello, insieme al tuo status maritale)”

Altri errori di forma:
holiday, non holYday
feel sick, non go sick