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Robert Louis Stevenson
Early Life
Robert Louis Stevenson was born on the 13th of November in 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland, His parents were Thomas Stevenson, a leading lighthouse engineer, and Margaret Isabella, daughter of a church minister.
Stevenson was a sickly child and his mother was also often unwell.
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Therefore, he spent much of his childhood with his family nanny, Alison Cunningham. She was very kind to him and often narrated to him old gothic stories and tales of supernatural creatures, which later he fictionalized in his works such as Thrawn Janet and The Merry Men.
Education
Robert Louis Stevenson had a difficult childhood due to chronic health problems.
He started his schooling at the age of seven. Unfortunately, his deteriorating health and his father’s doubts about the value of formal education did not allow him to perform well at school. Later, following his father’s footsteps, he attended Edinburgh University to become a civil engineer.
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