Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin; and, A Family of Engineers

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Fleeming Jenkin was one of the men Stevenson most loved and admired; the memoir was written to accompany a posthumous collection of Jenkin's writings. The Records are an incomplete family history.

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Published January 1, 1969

About the author

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.

Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.