An adapted biography. Adult learners. Basic Level

1. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
An adaptation of his biography for Adult Beginners

2. HIS TIME
 Robert is a Victorian writer

3. HIS LIFE
• Robert was born in
Edinburgh ( Scotland) in 1850.
• His family is wealthy.
They have a good position.
When he is 12, he travels to France,
Switzerland, Belgium, Germany
and Italy
on a five month holiday.

4. •Robert is a sickly child. He
is exceedingly thin and
frail, and he suffers with
coughs and fevers.
• He is very close to his father
• When he is sixteen he writes The
Pentland Rising, a story based on an
historical event. His father pays for its
publication.

5.  Robert Louis Stevenson goes to Edinburgh
University. He starts to study engineering,
but he doesn’t like it so
he changes to law.
However, he still wants
to be a writer.
 In 1876 he goes on a canoeing
trip to Belgium and
France with friend. He
keeps a journal of his
travels and uses it to form
the basis of his first book,
An Inland Voyage.

6.  In France, Stevenson meets an American woman
called Fanny Osbourne. He falls in love with her.
 Fanny is married to Sam Osbourne. However, they
begin to live as lovers.
 In 1878 Fanny travels back to her husband.

7.  In 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson travels all the way
from Britain to America to see Fanny Osbourne, and
they get married in 1880.
 They decide to live in Britain and set up home with
Fanny’s twelve year old son (from her previous
marriage), Lloyd.
 Fanny and Lloyd
are very important
in Robert’s life
and an inspiration
for his writings.

8.  In 1881 the Stevenson family
goes on holiday in Scotland. It
rains for days on end, and
to pass the time Lloyd
draws a map of an
imaginary island. The map makes Robert
Louis Stevenson think of pirates and treasure,
and inspires him to write Treasure Island.
 Treasure island is first
published as a book in 1883.
It is very successful.
He is now a well-known writer.

9.  Robert Louis Stevenson continues to experience health
problems as an adult. He suffers with chest infections
and is often so ill he can’t leave his bed.
 In 1886 he writes both The Strange Case of Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Kidnapped.

10.  From 1888 to 1890, the Stevenson family spends two
years sailing around the Pacific Ocean islands.
 Robert Louis Stevenson decides to build a house in the
island of Upolu, in Western Samoa.

11. • He continues writing, but it is
increasingly difficult as his illness
becomes worse.
In December 1894, Robert Louis
Stevenson dies. He is only 44 years
old. His body is buried on Mount
Vaea, Upolu.

12. IMAGES TAKEN FROM
 http://www.newstalk.ie/mobile/index.php?
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 Google
 Information taken from Wikipedia.