Stevensonianadj.n.

1897 T. Davidson Let. 29 Mar. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 756 Nothing but a happy-go-lucky Stevensonian adventuresomeness.

1900 Fortn. Rev. Jan. 97 He did not underrate Kidnapped as a whole. ‘By far the most human of my labours hitherto,’ is his verdict, anticipating that of all the true Stevensonians.

1913 Smart Set No. 3. 45/1 That polished peanut style that passes for Stevensonian English in the ‘culture’ clubs.

1923 G. K. Chesterton in Illustr. London News 22 Sept. 512/2 It was..the essence of the Stevensonian spirit that the melancholy was not incurable even if the misfortune was incurable.

1928 Observer 22 Jan. 15/1 Bouvet Island is a Stevensonian treasure island, bare, uninhabited, bleak.

1929 W. J. Locke Ancestor Jorico iii. 39 If you like to start out as a romantic writer, here's something Stevensonian to your hand.

1939 John o' London's Weekly 9 June 363/2 A new detective novelist..whose equipment includes..a good homespun prose with Stevensonian echoes.

1974 J. Pope-Hennessy R. L. Stevenson vi. 118 Meredith did..start off on a portrait of Louis Stevenson, in the guise of ‘Gower Woodseer’ [in]..The Amazing Marriage [but] the Woodseer of the later part..is not consistent with the Stevensonian youth we encounter at the beginning.