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Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses .
- Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson, 13 November 1850, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Thomas Stevenson (father)
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- Inspiration
- Characters
- Historical Allusions
- Suggested Links to The Towns of Birkenhead and Wallasey Near Liverpool
- Sequels, Prequels, and Worldbuilding
- References in Popular Culture
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In the mid-18th century, an old sailor who identifies himself as "The Captain" starts to lodge at the rural Admiral Benbow Inn on England's Bristol Channel. He tells the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, to keep a lookout for "a one-legged seafaring man". Black Dog, a sailor, recognizes the captain as his former shipmate Billy Bones, and confronts him....
Treasure Island was written after returning from his first trip to America where he was married. Still a relatively unknown author, inspiration came in summer of 1881 in Braemar, Scotland when bad weather kept the family inside. To amuse his 12-year old stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, he used the idea of a secret map as the basis of a story about hidden t...
Main
1. Jim Hawkins: The narrator of most of the novel. Jim is the son of an innkeeper on the north Devoncoast of England and appears to be in his mid-teens. He is eager to go to sea and hunt for treasure. Jim consistently displays courage and heroism, but is also sometimes impulsive and impetuous. He exhibits increasing sensitivity and wisdom as the journey progresses. 2. Long John Silver: The one-legged cook aboard the Hispaniola. Silver is the secret leader of the pirates. He is deceitful, mean...
Minor
1. Alan: An honest sailor who is killed by the mutineers during the landing on the island and whose death scream is heard across the isle. The incident occurs just before Long John murders Tom. 2. Allardyce: One of the six members of Flint's Crew who, after burying the treasure and silver and building the blockhouse on Treasure Island, are all killed by Flint, who returns to his ship alone. Allardyce's body is lined up by Flint as a compass marker to the cache. 2.1. In Porto Bello Gold, one s...
Real pirates and piracy
Historian Luis Junco suggests that Treasure Island is a combination of the story of the murder of Captain George Glas on board the Earl of Sandwich in 1765 and the taking of the ship Walrus off the island of La Graciosa near Tenerife. The pirates of La Graciosa buried their treasure there, and all were subsequently killed in a bloody battle with the British navy; the treasure was never recovered. In his book Pirates of the Carraigin, David Kelly deals with the piracy and murder of Captain Gla...
Other allusions
1. 1689: A pirate whistles "Lillibullero". 2. 1702: The Admiral Benbow Inn on the Devon coast, where Jim and his mother live, is named after the real life Admiral John Benbow(1653–1702). 3. 1733: Foundation of Savannah, Georgia, where Captain Flintdied in 1754. 4. 1745: Doctor Livesey was at the Battle of Fontenoy(1745). 5. 1747: Squire Trelawney and Long John Silver both mention "Admiral Hawke", i.e. Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke(1705–81), promoted to rear admiral in 1747. 6. 1749: The novel...
In August 2022, the British Member of Parliament for Birkenhead, Mick Whitley, supported the findings of local historian John Lamb, that Robert Louis Stevenson had set his classic novel Treasure Island in the towns of Birkenhead and Wallasey on the Wirral Peninsula lying opposite Liverpool. This followed a previous announcement by Alan Evans of Wir...
Literature
Stevenson's Treasure Islandhas spawned an enormous amount of literature based upon the original novel: 1. Porto Bello Gold (1924), a prequel by A. D. Howden Smith that was written with explicit permission from Stevenson's executor, tells the origin of the buried treasure and recasts many of Stevenson's pirates in their younger years, giving the hidden treasure some Jacobiteantecedents not mentioned in the original. 2. Back to Treasure Island (1935) is a sequel by H. A. Calahan, the introducti...
Film and television
A number of sequelshave also been produced in film and television, including: 1. Return to Treasure Island (1954), a film by E. A. Dupont 2. Return to Treasure Island(1986), written by Ivor Dean, Robert S. Baker and John Goldsmith, is a HTV television series that features Silver, Hawkins and Gunn. 3. Black Sails (2014–2017), a prequel drama series by Robert Levine and Jonathan E. Steinberg, tells the story of Captain Flint and John Silver leading up to the Treasure Islandstory. The series is...
Worldbuilding
In worldbuilding, there are: 1. Admiral Guinea (publ. 1892), a play written by R. L. Stevenson with W. E. Henley, features the blind ex-pirate Pew as a character under the name of "David Pew". 2. In his collection Fables (1896), Stevenson wrote a vignettecalled "The Persons of the Tale", in which puppets Captain Smollet and Long John Silver discuss authorship. 3. In the novel Peter and Wendy (1911) by J. M. Barrie, it is said that Captain Hook is the only man ever feared by the Old Sea Cook (...
The Strong Winds series of children's adventures by Julia Jones draws freely from events and names in Treasure Island.In the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome, the Blacketts' Uncle Jim has the nickname of Captain Flint and a parrot.A 1960 episode of Dennis the Menace is centered around the pursuit of buried treasure, inspired by Mr. Wilson reading his childhood copy of Treasure Islandto Dennis and his friends.In 1988, The Soviet Director David Cherkassky released the 1988 Soviet film Treasure Islandwhich relates to the bookSources
1. Barker-Benfield, Simon (2014). The Annotated Treasure Island. ISBN 978-1-937075-01-9 2. Cordingly, David (1995). Under the Black Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life Among the Pirates. ISBN 0-679-42560-8. 3. Letley, Emma, ed. (1998). Treasure Island (Oxford World's Classics). ISBN 0-19-283380-4. 4. Pietsch, Roland (2010). The Real Jim Hawkins: Ships' Boys in the Georgian Navy. ISBN 978-1-84832-036-9. 5. Reed, Thomas L. (2006). The Transforming Draught: Jekyll and Hyde, Robert Louis Steven...
Treasure Island at Standard EbooksTreasure Island at Project GutenbergTreasure Island, scanned and illustrated books at Internet Archive. Notable editions include:Howard H. Stevenson (June 27, 1941) is the Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Forbes magazine described him as Harvard Business School's "lion of entrepreneurship" in a 2011 article. [1] Howard is credited with defining entrepreneurship as "the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you currently ...
Born in 1938 in London, England, as Joanna Venetia Invicta Stevenson, she was the daughter of film director Robert Stevenson and actress Anna Lee. The family moved to Hollywood within a year of her birth after her father signed a contract with film producer David O. Selznick. [1] When her parents divorced in 1944, she stayed with her father and ...
Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson, CBE (born 30 October 1956) is an English actress of stage and screen. She is known for her role in the film Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Her other film appearances include Emma (1996), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Mona Lisa Smile ...
Ray Stevenson. George Raymond Stevenson (25 May 1964 – 21 May 2023) was a Northern Irish actor. He portrayed Dagonet in the film King Arthur (2004) and Titus Pullo in the BBC / HBO television series Rome (2005–2007). He portrayed two Marvel Comics characters: Frank Castle / The Punisher in Punisher: War Zone (2008) and The Super Hero Squad ...
