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Robert Louis born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh

His youthful enthusiasm for the Covenants (i.e., those Scotsmen who had banded together to defend their version of Presbyterianism in the 17th century) led to his writing The Pent-land Rising, his first printed work.

Attended Edinburgh University as a civil engineering major at the age of 17 years of age ,where he was expected to prepare himself for the family profession of lighthouse engineering.

he abandoned the course because Stevenson had no desire to be an engineer and made the compromise of studying law at Edinburgh University

"Roads" was his first paid publication

in the midst of painful differences with his father, he visited a married cousin in Suffolk, England, where he met Sidney Colvin, the English scholar, who became a lifelong friend, and Fanny Sitwell (who later married Colvin)an older woman of charm and talent, drew the