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Claire Harman: Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson.(Shorter notices)(Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson)(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: New Criterion
Date: 20060301
Author:Andree, Courtney

Claire Harman Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. HarperCollins, 528 pages, $29.95

Claire Harman's Myself and the Other Fellow has enough ribald anecdote and irreverent detail to do her subject proud, though she includes too much Fanny for polite company. Fortunately, when Harman is not busy lauding Stevenson's wife, she spends scant moments speculating on Stevenson's sexuality and the "crushes" of Henry James and other would-be admirers. She is even kind enough to spare us the oh-so-typical postcolonial readings of his time in the Pacific. ...

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