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Queen of the north
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The soft pungency of box hedge warmed by spring sunshine wafts in
the open door of Jane Stevenson's workroom. Outside is the garden;
beyond that, on the buff fields of Buchan, tractors are raising dust
and peewits.
Our thoughts, however, are drifting about 17th-century Holland,
London, Barbados, the settings for Stevenson's enthusiastically
greeted historical novel, Astraea, and its newly published sequel,
The Pretender.
"I think the second half of the 17th century was a horrible time,"
says Stevenson, who lectures in comparative literature at Aberdeen
University, some 35 miles to the south. ...
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; ...himself probably realized. Not only does Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) resemble...from medical literature. In her 1905 introduction to Stevenson's collected works, Fanny Osbourne Stevenson traces her spouse's interest in dual personality to...article, she adds, ...
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Stevenson home back as he'd like it.(News)
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