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E. Blantyre (Evelyn Blantyre) Simpson
1856–1920
A Scottish writer with a strong taste for literary lives and local tradition, she wrote warmly about figures such as Robert Louis Stevenson while also preserving stories from Lowland Scotland. Her books range from biography and short fiction to folklore and even a volume on dogs.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
by E. Blantyre (Evelyn Blantyre) Simpson
About the author
Born in Edinburgh in December 1855, she was a Scottish author usually credited as Eve Blantyre Simpson, though her work also appeared under forms including Evelyn Blantyre Simpson and E. Blantyre Simpson. She was the daughter of Sir James Young Simpson, the physician known for helping introduce chloroform in medicine, and she later wrote a biography of her father.
Her writing was varied but had a clear love of character and place. She published biographies and studies of Robert Louis Stevenson, wrote short stories, and produced books on subjects as different as dogs and the folklore of Lowland Scotland.
She died in January 1920. Today she is remembered as a versatile late 19th- and early 20th-century Scottish writer whose work connected literary biography with Scottish cultural history.