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Onboard the 'Janet Nicoll'
Osbourne, Lloyd, 1890, Photograph
Onboard the 'Janet Nicoll'
Onboard the 'Janet Nicoll'
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19837
Title
p. 70, Onboard the 'Janet Nicoll'
Description
Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson pose on the deck of the Janet Nicoll with members of the crew. The crew are Ernest Henry, the captain; Harry Henderson, the charterer and partner in the firm of Henderson and Macfarlane; Walter Stoddard, the engineer; Ben Hird, the supercargo, a well-known trader; and Jack Buckland, a Gilbert Island beachcomber. Fanny sits in a white dress on the deck whilst Stevenson leans on the rail wearing dark shorts and a striped jacket.
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Osbourne, Lloyd
Date
1890
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19.5 x 22.6 cm
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Photograph
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Writers' Museum
On 11th April 1890 Robert Louis Stevenson his wife Fanny and her son Lloyd Osbourne set off aboard the steamer Janet Nicoll from Sydney for a three-month trading voyage through the Pacific. The ship was under charter to Messrs Henderson and Macfarlane of Auckland, a well known trading firm The travelled through the Cook, Gilbert, Ellice and Marshall Islands, arriving at Noumea, New Caledonia on the 26th July.
Born in Edinburgh on 13th November 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and travel writer. Although he was plagued by ill health all his life, he was extraordinarily well-travelled, visiting Europe, America and the South Seas. He married American born Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne in 1880 and is best-known for works like Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (both 1886). From the late 1880s, Stevenson stayed in the South Pacific with his family on his own estate in Vailima in Samoa. He died here on the 3rd December 1894 of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 44, leaving what many consider his best work, Weir of Hermiston (1896) unfinished.
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Pacific Travels
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