Stevenson & Barrie A friendship in letters

Stevenson & Barrie A Friendship in Letters

Edited by Michael Shaw

Published by Sandstone Press 2020, Hardcover

ISBN: 9781913207021

In A Friendship in Letters, Dr. Michael Shaw brings together correspondence between two of Scotland’s most famous writers for the first time.

Though they never met, Robert Louis Stevenson and J. M. Barrie developed a warm friendship, revealed in these amusing and gossipy letters, with vivid commentary on each other’s literary work. Until recently, Barrie’s side of the correspondence was presumed lost by his biographers. This epistolary volume reunites Barrie’s letters with Stevenson’s and contextualises them through an engaging introduction and a series of appendices, including a delightful short story by Barrie.

‘Shaw should be congratulated in bringing these letters together, as a literary creation in its own right.’ -Dr. Valentina Bold

‘An interesting and accessible work of scholarship which presents new insights into their lives and works.’ -Louise Welsh