Fanny Stevenson : Muse, Adventuress and Romantic Enigma

Lapierre, Alexandra

ISBN 10: 185702382X / ISBN 13: 9781857023824

Published by Fourth Estate Limited, London, UK, 1995

About this Item

556 pages. Light wear to dustjacket's corners and edges o/w it is very clean, NOT price-clipped. Very clean hardback binding. Pages very clean. B&W plates.

Seller Inventory # 039469

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fanny Stevenson : Muse, Adventuress and Romantic Enigma
• Publisher: Fourth Estate Limited, London, UK
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 185702382X
• ISBN 13: 9781857023824
• Binding: Hard Back/Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good ++/Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good ++/Fine

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Synopsis

Robert Louis Stevenson devoted his life to his wife Fanny: he crossed continents in search of her; scandalized his family by marrying her; built a life in the Pacific with her; survived tuberculosis because of her; and was encouraged and inspired in his writing by her. An American woman eleven years his senior, she remains in her own right one of the most independent and free-spirited women of her generation. Robert Louis Stevenson was an unknown 25-year-old when he came across Fanny for the first time in the artists' colony of Barbizon near Paris. This biography paints a portrait of the woman behind the genius who led a fascinating existence before, during and after her marriage to Stevenson. From the silver-mining towns of Nevada to the cocoa plantations of Samoa, Fanny evinced courage and determination to survive and triumph over the odds.

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