* A Violent Passion - Novel, originally published as The Passionate Kindness

* The Robert Louis Stevenson Treasury, 1982; Shepheard-Walwyn, London; St Martin's Press, NY Cassell, Aug 85
* R L Stevenson in the South Seas; An Intimate Photographic Record, 1986
* Bright Ring of Words: A Centennial Tribute to RLS, 1994 (with E S Warfel)

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A Violent Passion

A Violent Passion. The Love Story of Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Osbourne

A VIOLENT PASSION, the Love Story of Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Osbourne is now available as an ebook.
Originally published as The Passionate Kindness in 1974. ‘The essence of love is best defined as passionate kindness, run mad and become importunate and violent,’ so wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. Fanny Osbourne was already nearly forty, married and mother of two children when they met and in defiance of  Victorian morality became lovers. They lived together in Paris for two years before Fanny returned to her husband to obtain a divorce and marry Louis, who had followed her to California.  So began a  stormy, tortuous relationship as they travelled the world from Scotland to Samoa in search of a place where Fanny could keep the frail but now famous RLS alive for a few more years.

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