Fanny Stevenson

ABOUT FANNY STEVENSON

Wife of Robert Louis Stevenson who supported and inspired his work.

She was married to a cheating husband in California when Stevenson, after three years of saving up for a trip to see her, proposed to her.

20 years after her husband died she traveled the world with a male admirer.

Her husband, Robert Louis Stevenson , wrote some of his best works while waiting for her to respond to his proposal.

Like Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , she inspired her husband's most beloved works.