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Day Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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At the age of 16 Stevenson supposedly began to study engineering
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At the age of 21 Robert Stevenson informs his father that he wants to pursue the life of an Arthur
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Roads was his first paid publication.
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The idea for Treasure Island came to Stevenson after drawing a map for his stepson
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In late 1873 on a visit to a cousin Stevenson meet Frances Jane Sitwell. Sitwell was a very attractive women. Although Sitwell was married Stevenson and her kept up a heated correspondence. He wrote her a serious of letters.Eventually there love became a long lasting friendship.
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Stevenson's health began to fail and was sent to Menton on the French Riviera
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After a year of poor health he recovered and settled down to his studys.
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Stevenson came to an agreement with his father that he would study law as well as follow his dream of becoming a writer on July 1875 he qualified for the Scottish bar but never practiced law
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Stevenson met fanny who was married at the time but fell in love with her.
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An Inland Voyage was Stevenson's first book
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After years of knowing one another Fanny and Stevenson finally married
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As soon as Stevenson Publised this famous novel it became it instant hit
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Devestted after his fathers death Stevenson traveled bac to the US to reunite with his wife and stepson
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His family and him crused around the South sea Island untl it became clear they settled down in the Island.
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At the age of only 44 years old Stevenson passed away from a stroke in his home in Apia, Samoa.
