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  • Mr Stevenson and be conveniently near London for literary business and literary friendships, so he, and his wife and son settled at Bournemouth in a house called Skerryvore, after the famous lighthouse so dear to all the Stevensons.

    Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

  • The name of this rock is called the Skerryvore, and it's not far from where we suffered ship-wreck.

    Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

  • The name of this rock is called the Skerryvore, and it's not far from where we suffered ship-wreck.

    Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • They named the cottage "Skerryvore," after the famous lighthouse he had helped to build in his young days, and it was their home for the next three years -- busy ones for R.L.S. [Illustration: Skerryvore Cottage, Bournemouth]

    The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls Jacqueline Overton 1872

  • Skerryvore, but one oval nodule of black-trap, sparsely bedabbled with an inconspicuous fucus, and alive in every crevice with a dingy insect between a slater and a bug.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • Think of parties in Monuments! think of me in Skerryvore, and now of this.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • Conceive such an outing, remember the pallid brute that lived in Skerryvore like a weevil in a biscuit, and receive the intelligence that I was rather the better for my journey.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • Times were different upon Dhu – Heartach when it blew, and the night fell dark, and the neighbour lights of Skerryvore and

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • Mr Thomas Stevenson served under his brother Alan in building the famous lighthouse of 'Skerryvore,' and with his brother David he built 'The

    Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

  • Squatters_, but their first real home was at Skerryvore, and Bournemouth was the headquarters of the household until the necessities of Mr

    Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

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