![]() Inspiration may also have come from the writer's friendship with an Edinburgh-based French teacher, Eugene Chantrelle, who was convicted and executed for the murder of his wife in May 1878. I doubt if the first draft took so long as three days." Louis came downstairs in a fever read nearly half the book aloud and then, while we were still gasping, he was away again, and busy writing. I remember the first reading as though it were yesterday. ![]() Lloyd Osbourne, Stevenson's stepson, wrote: "I don't believe that there was ever such a literary feat before as the writing of Dr. He said angrily: "Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale." I had awakened him at the first transformation scene. Thinking he had a nightmare, I awakened him. In the small hours of one morning, I was awakened by cries of horror from Louis. Biographer, Graham Balfour, quoted Stevenson's wife, Fanny Stevenson: 1888), he racked his brains for an idea for a story and had a dream, and upon waking had the intuition for two or three scenes that would appear in the story Strange Case of Dr. According to his essay "A Chapter on Dreams" ( Scribner's, Jan. In early 1884, he wrote the short story " Markheim", which he revised in 1884 for publication in a Christmas annual. ![]() Henley and which was produced for the first time in 1882. While still a teenager, he developed a script for a play about William Brodie, which he later reworked with the help of W. ![]() ![]() Stevenson had long been intrigued by the idea of how human personalities can reflect the interplay of good and evil. ![]()
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