Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From all sides came suggestions that the armed services should be "restrained" first, and much optimism about more punch for the pound (like Washington's more bang for the buck"). Bevanite joined Tory in cries for an immediate reduction in the two-year draft.-The press was full of features...
In this grave lies a man once hailed as a great writer, but currently out of fashion. Buried beside him is a woman who was hardly thought of as a writer at all, but who may well burst forth posthumously with a bestseller. Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson has...
The diary starts in September 1890, when the Stevensons first settled down at Vailima, their home on Upolu. Louis, who was tubercular, had traveled the globe in search of health, and the Samoan climate seemed to help. Indianapolis-born Fanny had been a pioneer of sorts in California in post...
In January 1894, the year he died, Robert Louis Stevenson began to fear that his work was going stale and wrote that he could actually wish to die, though suicide "is not thought the ticket in the best circles." In December 1894, at 44, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage...
It is unfortunate that Fanny attached no importance whatever to her writing, and that she accepted, though with injured feelings, Louis' good-natured taunt that she had the "soul of a peasant." A mere four years with Fanny Stevenson's steady eye leaves the reader wanting more.