Author Robert Louis Stevenson only lived in Bournemouth for three years but it was during that time he wrote his horror novella, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.<\/p>\n
A sculpture inspired by the book’s characters has this week been unveiled at nearby Alum Chine, not far from his former home.<\/p>\n
The Treasure Island novelist moved to “Skerryvore” in Westbourne with his wife in 1884, naming the house after a lighthouse in Scotland built by his uncle.<\/p>\n
He remained there until 1887 during which time he also wrote Kidnapped and A Child’s Garden of Verses.<\/p>\n
In November 1940, the house was destroyed in a German air raid and the plot, which still includes the footprint of the house, was later turned into a memorial garden which is maintained by the Friends of Skerryvore.<\/p>\n
The sculpture was unveiled on Monday as part of Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council’s Coastal Art Trail, funded by the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Author Robert Louis Stevenson only lived in Bournemouth for three years but it was during that time he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-494558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}