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Article: So long in situ! Writers must stick to their garrets
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 27, 1994
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There was a lot of excitement during the Edinburgh Festival this
year about the centenary of Robert Louis Stevenson's death, and
maybe there was a lot of excitement, too, in Samoa and all the
other places he lived. However, there doesn't seem to have been
much celebration in Bournemouth, despite the fact that Stevenson
lived in the town for three years (1884-87) and wrote some of his
most famous books there. If the bunting was out for Robert Louis
Stevenson, and spontaneous Scottish reel parties broke out in the
streets of Bournemouth, I failed to notice. If so, I apologise.
The fact is that we English are pretty good at celebrating our
own writers and their locale, and turning them into ...