Robert Louis Stevenson was a very important literary celebrity. He was born in 1850 in Edinburgh and belonged to a very respectable upper middle class family. His father Thomas Stevenson was a renowned leading lighthouse engineer in the Victorian era while his mother belonged to a lawyers and clergymen family. In 1857 he with his parents moved to 17 Heriot Row a four story Georgian town house in Edinburgh’s new town. Stevenson unlike other writers had a privileged domestic life but had many restrictions on liberty. He was a sick child with a respiratory illness due to which he had to spend most of the time in his room. He wasn’t able to play with other children and was confined to four walls of his room and had a nurse Alison Cunningham who looked after him and read to him Bible and works on Presbyterian morality. Stevenson’s parents were very concerned for his health, they wanted to protect him …show more content…
He uses Bible to make her understand that nothing will happen to him as Bible is a Sacred Book and she would believe in his words. In their everyday argument too we see that Stevenson has maintained realism as Wiltshire speaks in standard colloquial English Uma replies back in simple word order and even the sentence structure is very simple. Wiltshire’s taking an oath on the Bible and taking it with him as a protection from evil spirits shows Uma’s never ending love and support for her husband presents their marriage in a strong way and their unbreakable bonding. Bible is the common textual reference in between both irrespective of their opposite beliefs in the religion. This shows us that there was a connection that was established between the people because of the British Empire and trade but this interconnectedness resulted in dilution of British values of home, mixing of the