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Laura Stubbs

Best remembered for a short but vivid travel memoir, this early-20th-century writer crossed the world to visit Robert Louis Stevenson's grave in Samoa. Her work blends literary devotion, sea travel, and sharp impressions of the South Pacific.

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Stevenson's Shrine: The Record of a Pilgrimage

Stevenson's Shrine: The Record of a Pilgrimage

by Laura Stubbs

About the author

Laura Stubbs is known for Stevenson's Shrine: The Record of a Pilgrimage, a 1903 book about her journey to Samoa to visit the grave of Robert Louis Stevenson. The book survives through public-domain editions and later reprints, and it remains the main confirmed record of her writing career.

From the book's title pages and library listings, she appears to have been an early-20th-century author with a strong admiration for Stevenson. Her memoir is part travel narrative and part literary tribute, following a long voyage through the South Pacific and reflecting on Stevenson's life, reputation, and final home at Vailima.

Reliable biographical details about Stubbs herself are scarce in the sources I could confirm, so much of her personal life remains unclear. What stands out is the sense of purpose in her writing: she turned admiration for a favorite author into a real pilgrimage and left behind a compact, atmospheric record of that journey.