![]() ![]() Listen to the Stories In Stone podcast produced in collaboration with Edinburgh City of Literature Trust, on Heriot Row (and read more at Heriot Row History): (from ‘The Lamplighter’, A Child’s Garden of Verses) O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him tonight!” The gas lamps, which may still be seen on Heriot Row, offered some comfort to the frightened young Stevenson: “For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door,Īnd Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more Īnd O! Before you hurry by with ladder and with light, His nurse’s stories coupled with his child’s fear of the dark further fired his imagination. Gardens, which he could see from his bedroom window, an islet in a small pond may later have given rise to his famous Treasure Island. He was a sickly boy and perhaps his febrile imagination had to compensate for a lack of physical exertion. In 1857, at the age of 7 Stevenson moved with his family to 17 Heriot Row in the New Town. ![]() Unless otherwise indicated the quotations represented here are from his Edinburgh Picturesque Notes. His descriptions of Edinburgh are vivid and frank but it is the underlying atmosphere of the Scottish capital which helped mould his imagination and informs his writing. The dark closes of the Old Town provided an exciting contrast to the elegance and respectability of the New Town, where Stevenson grew up. The city of Edinburgh had a significant influence on the creative imagination of R.L. ![]()
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