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The haunting of Mr & Mrs Stevenson
Lyons-Lee, Belinda2025
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The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson is a gothic delight. It tells the story of Robert Louis Stevenson's friendship with the charming Eugene Chantrelle and the murder mystery that contributed to Robert's need to create a novel focused on the dualistic nature of the psyche. From a seance with the Shelleys at Boscombe Manor to a haunted wardrobe made by an infamous Scottish criminal, the novel is underscored by the story of two writers very much in love. Fanny and Robert were married in 1880, when she was forty and he was twenty-nine. An American who divorced her philandering husband to marry Robert, she was already the mother of children, a self-supporting writer, and with intelligence and wit very much the rock in their relationship. Brilliantly told in Fanny's voice, this atmospheric novel is both the story of an unconventional literary relationship and a page-turning mystery that reveals the truth about the people, objects and events that inspired Stevenson to write The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Main title:
The haunting of Mr & Mrs Stevenson / by Belinda Lyons-Lee.
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Imprint:
Melbourne : Transit Lounge Publishing, 2025.©2025
Collation:
357 pages ; 24 cm
Variant title:
Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson; Haunting of Mister and Mistress Stevenson
ISBN:
9781923023338 (paperback)
Language:
English
Subject:
Chantrelle, Eugene Marie, 1834-1878 -- FictionStevenson, Fanny Van de Grift, 1840-1914 -- FictionStevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Authorship -- FictionStevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- FictionMurder -- FictionFriendship -- FictionInspiration -- FictionMan-woman relationships -- FictionAustralian fictionBiographical fictionGothic fiction
BRN:
533084
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