Westbourne’s fitting memorial to a literary giant
Rachel Gower reports on the restoration of Skerryvore, formerly the home of R L Stevenson
Published in June ’22
Robert Louis Stevenson at about the time he was living in Westbourne
JIM Hawkins, Squire Trelawney and the other heroes of the adventure classic, Treasure Island, must have been in peak physical condition to play their part in shinning up ships’ rigging, hiding in barrels and ambushing pirates. Ironically, their creator, Robert Louis Stevenson, never enjoyed good health. A sickly child, his weak chest was not improved by the cold and dampness of Edinburgh, where he was brought up. He lived in France and then the USA in a search for a more therapeutic climate and in 1884 settled with his wife, Fanny, in Bournemouth.
The early development of …
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