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Robert Louis born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh
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His youthful enthusiasm for the Covenants (i.e., those Scotsmen who had banded together to defend their version of Presbyterianism in the 17th century) led to his writing The Pent-land Rising, his first printed work.
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he published "Kidnapped"
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Attended Edinburgh University as a civil engineering major at the age of 17 years of age ,where he was expected to prepare himself for the family profession of lighthouse engineering.
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he abandoned the course because Stevenson had no desire to be an engineer and made the compromise of studying law at Edinburgh University
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"Roads" was his first paid publication
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in the midst of painful differences with his father, he visited a married cousin in Suffolk, England, where he met Sidney Colvin, the English scholar, who became a lifelong friend, and Fanny Sitwell (who later married Colvin)an older woman of charm and talent, drew the young man out and won his confidence. Soon Stevenson was deeply in love, and on his return to Edinburgh he wrote her a series of letters in which he played the part first of lover, then of worshipper, then of son.
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Stevenson reached California ill and penniless (the record of his arduous journey appeared later in The Amateur Emigrant, 1895, and Across the Plains, 1892). His adventures, which included coming very near death and eking out a precarious living in Monterey and San Francisco, culminated in marriage to Fanny Osbourne (who was by then divorced from her first husband) early in 1880.
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he published the first version of the popular nursery-rhyme book A Child’s Garden of Verse.
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he published Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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his dealth was caused by a lung disease called Intracerebral hemorrhage.
