Editing Robert Louis Stevenson (section)

===Education===
[[File:Robert Louis Stevenson mit 7 Jahren.jpg|thumb|Stevenson at age 7]]
[[File:Stevenson age 14.jpg|thumb|Stevenson at age 14]]
[[File:Rls-pc1.jpg|thumb|Stevenson at age 30]]
In September 1857, when he was six years old, Stevenson went to ''Mr Henderson's School'' in India Street, Edinburgh, but because of poor health stayed only a few weeks and did not return until October 1859, aged eight. During his many absences, he was taught by private tutors. In October 1861, aged ten, he went to [[Edinburgh Academy]], an independent school for boys, and stayed there sporadically for about fifteen months. In the autumn of 1863, he spent one term at an English boarding school at Spring Grove in [[Isleworth]] in Middlesex (now an urban area of West London). In October 1864, following an improvement to his health, the 13-year-old was sent to Robert Thomson's private school in Frederick Street, Edinburgh, where he remained until he went to university.<ref>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=26438&back= Stephenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894) – Childhood and schooling] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809143428/http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=26438&back= |date=9 August 2016 }}. ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]''. Retrieved: 1 August 2013.</ref> In November 1867, Stevenson entered the [[University of Edinburgh]] to study engineering. From the start he showed no enthusiasm for his studies and devoted much energy to avoiding lectures. This time was more important for the friendships he made with other students in [[The Speculative Society]] (an exclusive debating club), particularly with Charles Baxter, who would become Stevenson's financial agent, and with a professor, [[Fleeming Jenkin]], whose house staged amateur drama in which Stevenson took part, and whose biography he would later write.<ref>Furnas (1952), 51–54, 60–62; Mehew (2004)</ref> Perhaps most important at this point in his life was a cousin, [[Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson]] (known as "Bob"), a lively and light-hearted young man who, instead of the family profession, had chosen to study art.<ref>Balfour (1901) I, 86–8; 90–4; Furnas (1952), 64–9</ref>