"Camille Peri's lively and substantive dual biography of the Stevensons, called A Wilder Shore, whisks those obscuring draperies off Fanny and restores her to full personhood."
"Fanny recognized Sargent's depiction as yet another attempt by an admirer of her husband's to diminish her. 'I am but a cipher under the shadow,' she complained to Sargent."
"Peri describes her book as: an intimate window into how [the Stevensons] lived and loved—a story that is at once a travel adventure and a journey into the literary creative process."
"After reading A Wilder Shore, I'm inspired to do two things: to reread Robert Louis Stevenson's three great works of fiction, and to schedule a séance with Fanny to get some one-on-one instruction on how to live more fearlessly as a woman."
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