From early childhood, he suffered from that most romantic of maladies, “consumption” (tubercu­losis or, in RLS’s case, retrospectively diagnosed as some other pulmonary disease). Informed by doctors ...
As a portrait of a marriage, it’s bizarre. I’m talking about the dual portrait John Singer Sargent painted in 1885 of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson. Louis, whose first novel, Treasure Island, had ...