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So to celebrate #RLSDay this year you must:

1) mention Jekyll and Hyde in a random conversation but pronounce it 'Jeekul.'
2) wait for someone to correct you.
3) correct THEM instead and show them this thread
4) be smug
5) drink a weird potion and go out no don't do that one
November 13, 2026 at 11:33 AM
davebremner.bsky.social
And 2 years later he was in Tahiti. #RLSDay
November 13, 2026 at 12:11 PM
orkneylibrary.bsky.social
Today is #RLSDay which is a celebration of the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson (it's his birthday). It's also a good time to remind you that when you're reading about his novel the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde the voice in your head is probably saying it wrong 🧵
A black and white photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson
November 13, 2026 at 11:33 AM
asls.org.uk
Great Lives: Robert Louis Stevenson

On BBC Sounds: the first book Douglas Dunn ever read was 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, & he loved its author ever after. Biographer Claire Harman explores RLS’s short but energetic life that began in Edinburgh & ended on Samoa
#Booksky #RLSDay
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BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Robert Louis Stevenson
Poet Douglas Dunn nominates Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island.
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November 13, 2026 at 2:09 PM
kaggsy59.bsky.social
"...the whole aspect of the case was changed." #penguinbookofgaslightcrime #RLSDay kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/11/13/t...
“…the whole aspect of the case was changed.” #penguinbookofgaslightcrime #RLSDay
Recently, Mr K was rummaging around in the garage, looking for an old PC (as you do…) and he called me in there with a query about a couple of boxes he’d found. “Are these your bo…
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November 13, 2026 at 8:15 AM
hanrahanistan.bsky.social
#RLSday re-up the RLS Estate issuing its own stamps
November 13, 2026 at 4:20 PM
edinburghbookshop.bsky.social
Another for #RLSDay - behold our Treasure Island window!! Yar, X marks the spot!

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#Bruntsfield #books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg
Looking through the side window of the Edinburgh Bookshop at night, with an illustrated Treasure Island large sticker of Jim and Long John Silver filling most of the space
November 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
asls.org.uk
“It is an RLS hallmark, the quicksilver evolution of thought and the fabular turn, the victory of original perception”

—Amdrew O’Hagan stays overnight in Robert Louis Stevenson’s childhood home, 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh – via the @lrb.co.uk
#RLSDay #Booksky 💙📚
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Andrew O’Hagan · Diary: Stevenson in Edinburgh
Time passes more intensely in dreams. It is a Robert Louis Stevenson hallmark, the quicksilver evolution of thought...
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November 13, 2026 at 1:28 PM
edinburghbookshop.bsky.social
"In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, & rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images..."

Happy #RLSDay !

#books #livres
A hand holding up special hardback, rather fancy editions of Jekyll and Hyde, and Treasure Island, the red neon "we read past our bedtimes" bookshop sign visible behind
November 13, 2026 at 2:23 PM
asls.org.uk
“Among the writers I have always read and, willy-nilly, have taken as a model is R. L. Stevenson”
—Italo Calvino

The Only Art is to Omit
Robert Louis Stevenson special issue (2012)
#RLSDay #Booksky 💙📚 🎂🧵
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The Only Art is to Omit - The Bottle Imp
In this issue of The Bottle Imp, we celebrate the work—the art—of Robert Louis Stevenson. Why such focus on a single writer? Of course, we owe our very name to one of Stevenson’s South Sea stories, so...
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November 13, 2026 at 1:40 PM
asls.org.uk
“Markheim sees himself in a way the nineteenth century often failed to: the story exposes the awkward truths of trading stolen goods, murdering innocent people, &, as the antique-dealer’s death implies, being selective with connections to the past”
#RLSDay #Booksky #C19
www.varsity.co.uk/arts/17647
Time for Markheim
James Inkster discusses Robert Louis Stevenson's lesser-known tale of gore and guilt.
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November 13, 2026 at 2:19 PM
asls.org.uk
“the dense life within made itself faintly audible in my ears, family after family contributing its quota to the general hum, and the whole pile beating in tune to its timepieces, like a great disordered heart”

—Robert Louis Stevenson in the city
#C19 #RLSDay
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‘Like a Great Disordered Heart’: Robert Louis Stevenson in the City - The Bottle Imp
In a review of two new histories of Edinburgh, Stuart Kelly bemoaned the strange absence of literary explorers charting the city’s streets. ‘Narrating any city is an endless task, and it does surprise...
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November 13, 2026 at 1:49 PM
asls.org.uk
“The direct returns—the wages of the trade are small, but the indirect—the wages of the life—are incalculably great”

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “Letter to a young gentleman who proposes to embrace the career of art” – via @literaryhub.bsky.social
#RLSDay #writing
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If You Have to Ask, You Probably Shouldn’t Be a Writer
With the agreeable frankness of youth, you address me on a point of some practical importance to yourself and (it is even conceivable) of some gravity to the world: Should you or should you not bec…
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November 13, 2026 at 4:06 PM
asls.org.uk
Robert Louis Stevenson’s FABLES – 20 short, flash, & microfiction masterpieces, including one where Long John Silver & Captain Smollett slip out between chapters for a smoke – are witty, graceful, sometimes eerie, & always beautiful. All can be downloaded free👇
#RLSDay 💙📚
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Fables
Introduction by William Gray Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy with a frontispiece by Gwen Adair Published in: PDF, ePUB and mobipocket: “After the 32nd chapter of Treasure Island…
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November 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
asls.org.uk
Andrew O’Hagan & @moonjets.bsky.social on Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, & Bournemouth for this @lrb.co.uk podcast. When James first came to Skerryvore – RLS’s home, named for a Hebridean lighthouse – the maid mistook him for a carpet-fitter…
#RLSDay #C19 #Booksky
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Podcast: Andrew O’Hagan and Thomas Jones · Semi-Recumbent in Bournemouth
Andrew O’Hagan talks to Thomas Jones about the friendship between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, and the time they spent together in Bournemouth.
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November 13, 2026 at 1:28 PM
asls.org.uk
Ruth Richardson writing in @thelancet.com, on how “The Body-Snatcher” shows Stevenson’s

“acute analysis of degrees of guilt; the complicit socialisation of maleness… the dark silences that can exist in social relations that pass as bonhomie”
#RLSDay #C19 #Booksky
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Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher
The core of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story The Body Snatcher probably derives from an urban legend from the Edinburgh region. It was written in the Scottish village of Pitlochry, where Stevenso...
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November 13, 2026 at 2:19 PM
asls.org.uk
“In crime, as in all life, nothing is fixed or certain. Put another way, it is part of the mystery of being, which has its origin in religious faith, & Stevenson’s stories abound in mysteries”

🗡️ “A Lodging for the Night”
🪞 “Markheim”
💀 “The Body-Snatcher”

#RLSDay 💙📚
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Sins and Follies
Available in: PDF or ePub “In crime, as in all life, nothing is fixed or certain. Put another way, it is part of the mystery of being, which has its origin in religious faith, and Stevenson’s stories…
asls.org.uk
November 13, 2026 at 2:19 PM
asls.org.uk
Annie had no children of her own, & passed the birthday on to her niece, the Irish author Anita Leslie (1914–1985), who drove ambulances for the Free French in WW2 & won the Croix de Guerre. She left the birthday to her granddaughter. Happy #RLSDay Heather Finn!
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Birthday present from Robert Louis Stevenson still treasured in Galway
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of Robert Louis Stevenson's death but the real event of the year for his fans was his birthday…
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November 13, 2026 at 1:07 PM
asls.org.uk
“The watershed for the modern short story began in 1878 with… Stevenson’s ‘A Lodging for the Night’, with Allen going so far as to claim that the change to the specifically modern short story can be precisely dated at that point”

#RLSDay #Booksky
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Short Story Month: 2015--Robert Louis Stevenson, "A Lodging for the Night"
It is no coincidence that Robert Louis Stevenson, the first British writer to be recognized as a specialist in the short story, is also the...
may-on-the-short-story.blogspot.com
November 13, 2026 at 2:19 PM
tuisma.com
Who gets ahead in an adventure story? Marking 176 years since Robert Louis Stevenson’s birth, Tuisma takes a fresh look at Treasure Island and the pleasures of rereading.

For entertainment and reflection only.
#RobertLouisStevenson #RLS #RLSDay #TreasureIsland #BookTok #ClassicReads #Tuisma
November 13, 2026 at 7:35 AM
mkinberg.bsky.social
kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/11/13/t... > via @kaggsy59.bsky.social
“…the whole aspect of the case was changed.” #penguinbookofgaslightcrime #RLSDay
Recently, Mr K was rummaging around in the garage, looking for an old PC (as you do…) and he called me in there with a query about a couple of boxes he’d found. “Are these your bo…
kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com
November 13, 2026 at 12:08 PM
asls.org.uk
“How if this be the truth – that all are a little true?”

Stevenson’s FABLES offer what the author called “tail-foremost moralities”. In this presentation for the Beshara Trust, Robert-Louis Abrahamson considers the FABLES as “contemplative wisdom”
#RLSDay
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“How if this be the truth – that all are a little true?”
YouTube video by The Beshara Trust
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November 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
asls.org.uk
☝️ from RLS: A Life in Letters, on the RLSDay website (2023 archive). Fanny Sitwell asked Stevenson to destroy her letters to him, as she was a married woman & did not want to be compromised; but she treasured all of his in a rosewood casket, now in the @natlibscot.bsky.social
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Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2026
Edinburgh Celebrates A Great Scottish Writer
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October 21, 2026 at 1:12 PM
siliconglen.bsky.social
#RLSDay the author as a boy. Colinton, Edinburgh
November 17, 2024 at 8:06 PM
asls.org.uk
You can also listen to these stories being read online, by three of Scotland’s leading contemporary writers:

“Thrawn Janet”, read by Alan Bissett
“The Tale of Tod Lapraik”, read by James Robertson
“The Bottle Imp”, read by Louise Welsh

#RLSDay #gothic #horror 💙📚
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Robert Louis Stevenson's "Thrawn Janet"
YouTube video by ASL
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November 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM