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A Wilder Shore The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson

Camille Peri

ONE OF He was an ambitious but drifting writer from a prominent Scottish family. She was a tough Nevada silver miner’s wife, with children, when they met. Who could have predicted that Fanny Van de Grift and Robert Louis Stevenson would go on to create one of history’s great literary marriages?

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Fresh Air

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Fresh Air

Maureen Corrigan reviewed the biography, praising its vivid portrayal of Fanny Stevenson and its ability to restore her to full personhood.

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Camille Perri's lively and substantive dual biography of the Stevenson's called A Wilder Shore whisks those obscuring thoughts off Fanny and restores her to full personhood.

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Maureen Corrigan reviewed the biography, praising its vivid portrayal of Fanny Stevenson and its ability to restore her to full personhood.

"

Camille Perri's lively and substantive dual biography of the Stevenson's called A Wilder Shore whisks those obscuring thoughts off Fanny and restores her to full personhood.

Perri opens A Wilder Shore with a scene that could have been written by Louis but instead was lived by Fanny.

After reading A Wilder Shore I'm inspired to reread Robert Louis Stevenson's three great works of fiction, Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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