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General Editors: Stephen Arata, Richard Dury, Penny Fielding and Anthony Mandal

The New Edinburgh Edition is now gaining speed (if that is the word), as the following titles and dates show: (2014), (2017), Amateur Emigrant (May 2018) and Virginibus Puerisque (October 2018). Next year, 2019, should see another two volumes published, maintaining the momen- tum: Stories IV: Fables. Island Nights’ Entertainments; and Essays IV: Uncollected Essays 1868-1879. And the following year could see four or five additional titles: Essays II: Familiar Studies; Essays III: ; The Dynamiter; and Stories I: The Pavilion on the Links and Other Early Stories; with the additional possibility of Essays V: Uncollected Essays 1880-1894. There are other exciting volumes already in various stages of preparation: St Ives, , and The Black Arrow. Each of these volumes has its own special features and inter- est. Weir of Hermiston is based on a fresh transcription of the manuscript and benefits from Gill Hughes’s many years of experience as editor for the EUP Hogg Edition and her thorough understanding of Borders history and literature. , edited by Julia Reid, is based on Stevenson’s 1880 manuscript with gaps supplied from the earli- est printed editions and contains a full account of its composi- 223 Journal of Stevenson Studies tion, its suppression when already in proofs, its partial lifetime and then full posthumous publication. The introduction also discusses the work’s influences and literary context and the his- torical context of its composition. An appendix of illustrations includes images of the emigrant ship, a map of the train route and manuscript and proof sheet images. Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson, with its Explanatory Notes, cross-referencing to letters and other works by Stevenson, and full account of com- position of each essay will be an essential volume for scholars; its forty-page overview of ‘Stevenson as Essayist’ by the four essays editors will be a starting point for any future studies; and its checklist of essays by date of composition and magazine of first publication will give it additional value. Bill Gray’s volume Stories IV: Fables. Island Nights’ Entertainments includes Stevenson’s Fables in the first tran- scription of the manuscript since 1895, together with the two fables Colvin did not include, and in an ordering that reflects Stevenson’s last intentions. The second part of the volume contains the three supernatural tales that Stevenson instructed to be collected under the title ‘Island Nights’ Entertainments’: ‘’, ‘’ (transcribed from the manu- script) and ‘The Waif Woman’. Essays IV: Uncollected Essays 1868-1879, edited by Richard Dury, contains the first complete collection of all Stevenson’s book reviews, a number of previously unpublished essays and fragments, and the transcription of on-the-spot notes made for two travel essays, ‘A Winter’s Walk’ and ‘Forest Notes’. The appendix, with its list of Stevenson’s essay titles and essay- volume outlines from the 1870s, will be another useful resource for those studying Stevenson’s writing career. The volumes to follow these are equally varied and interest- ing: Essays II: Familiar Studies, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson and Richard Dury, will provide full information 224  about Stevenson’s literary/biographical studies in the context of other such studies of the time and also place them in the development of Stevenson’s ethical thoughts and world-view. Essays III: Memories and Portraits, edited by Alex Thomson, will include some of Stevenson’s finest essays exploring memory, imagination and the experience of literature. The second volume of uncollected essays, edited by Lesley Graham (Essays V, which gathers the twelve Scribner’s Magazine essays together for the first time) contains other important essays and a number of previously unpublished essay fragments. The Dynamiter, edited by Penny Fielding, is an interesting work of narrative Chinese boxes with a number of tales by female narrators first drafted by . This edition will also have an appendix of other stories by Fanny Stevenson. Burkhard Niederhoff’s Stories I: The Pavilion on the Links and Other Early Stories contains the non-Florizel stories originally pub- lished in the second volume of the . These include ‘The Pavilion on the Links’, which will also be included in an Appendix in its first version as first published in the Cornhill, with an interestingly different narrative perspective.

More on progress can be found in the EdRLS blog at http://edrls. wordpress.com/.

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Stevenson: Notes and Queries

The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson and the Journal of Stevenson Studies invite brief essays, bibliographical information, and/or Notes and Queries, relating to any of the following:

• The whereabouts of uncatalogued material

• Unpublished biographical information

• Supplementary material and emendations to Swearin- gen’s The Prose Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

• Information on Stevenson’s collaborations

• Details of Stevenson’s relations with publishers, both financial and personal

• Distribution and sale of Stevenson’s work in Britain and the USA

• Archive collections and printed guides relating to the magazines in which Stevenson published

• Information and opinions on different editions pub- lished during Stevenson’s lifetime

• The production of illustrations

• Early reception of individual works (reviews not col- lected in Maixner’s Critical Heritage

• Mentions of Stevenson’s works in letters or diaries of contemporaries, etc. 226 

Alternatively, information not intended for publication may be sent directly to any of the General Editors, who would be grateful for any such material:

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Volume 1 in 2004, contained essays by Richard Ambrosini, Steven Arata, Oliver S. Buckton, Liam Connell, Richard Dury, Vincent Giroud, Douglas S. Mack, Sudesh Mishra, Glenda Norquay, Olena M. Turnbull, Richard J. Walker, Roderick Watson.

Volume 2 in 2005, with essays by Hilary J. Beattie, Sara Clayson, Richard Dury, Liz Farr, William Gray, Gordon Hirsch, Jürgen Kramer.

Volume 3 in 2006 with a poem by Jim C. Wilson and essays by Giuseppe Albano, Katherine Linehan, Wendy Katz, Katherine Linehan, Laanvanyan Ratnapalan, Roger G. Swearingen, Saverio Tomaiuolo. 230 

Volume 4 in 2007 contained essays from the Saranac conference by R. L. Abrahamson, Richard Ambrosini, Hilary J. Beattie, Jenni Calder, Dennis Denisoff, Cinzia Giglioni, Gordon Hirsch, Mary B. Hotaling, William B. Jones Jr, Wendy R. Katz, Jürgen Kramer, Ilaria B. Sborgi, Marilyn Simon, Robert Benjamin Stevenson III, Roderick Watson.

Volume 5 in 2008 was the special ‘Stevenson and the Writers’ edition with reflections, memoirs and creative contributions from Ron Butlin, Alan Grant, Diana Hendry, David Kinloch, Patrick McGrath, Donal McLaughlin, Barry Menikoff, Cees Nooteboom, James Robertson, Suhayl Saadi, Louise Welsh, Hamish Whyte.

Volume 6 in 2009 contained essays from the Bergamo conference by Hilary Beattie, Nicoletta Brazzelli, Nancy Bunge, Gordon Hirsch, Nathalie Jaëck, Matthew Kaiser, Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega, Rosella Mallardi, Burkhard Niederhoff, Laavanyan Ratnapalan, Sara Rizzo, Andrew De Young, Tania Zulli.

Volume 7 in 2010 contained three poems on Stevenson by Jean Taylor and essays by David Annwn, Dana Fore, Jeremy Lim, Glenda Norquay and Sara Wasson, with ‘Uncollected Stevenson’ introduced by Caroline A. Howitt and Roger G. Swearingen.

Volume 8 in 2011 contained essays from the Stirling conference by R. L. Abrahamson, Sarah Ames, Hilary J. Beattie, Jenni Calder, Ann C. Colley, Lesley Graham, Richard J. Hill, Gordon Hirsch, Nathalie Jaëck, Stuart Kelly, Donald Mackenzie, David Miller, James Robertson, Sara Stevenson, Saverio Tomaiuolo, Roderick Watson.

Volume 9 in 2012 contained essays on Stevenson as an essayist from Robert-Louis Abrahamson, Neil Macara Brown, Richard Dury, Dewi Evans, Lesley Graham, Timothy S. Hayes, Jennifer Hayward, Richard J. Hill, Marie Léger-St-Jean, Andrew Robson, Alex Thomson.

Volume 10 in 2013 contained essays by R. L. Abrahamson, Neil Macara Brown, Linda Dryden, Christy Danelle Di Frances, Adam Lawrence, Catherine Mathews, Nigel Planer. 231 Journal of Stevenson Studies

Volume 11 in 2014 contained essays from the Sydney conference and others by Hilary J. Beattie, Letitia Henville, David Howard, Nathalie Jaeck, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Ashleigh Prosser, Alan Sandison.

Volume 12 in 2015 contained essays by Neil Macara Brown, Lucio De Capitani, Richard Dury, Jan Gorak, Sylvie Largeaud-Ortéga, Carla Manfredi, Duncan Milne, Stuart A. Paterson, Brian Wall.

Volume 13 in 2017 contained essays by Neil Macara Brown, Emma-Lee Davidson, Richard Dury, William B. Jones, Steve Joyce, Burkhard Niederhoff, Sebastian Williams.