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STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850 – 1894)

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850 – 1894)

1850 – 1894

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Image source Henry Walter Barnett · State Library of New South Wales · Public domain

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1884 CE

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The body snatcher.

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850 – 1894)
STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850 – 1894)

Loosely based upon the notorious crimes of Burke and Hare, who murdered 16 people in 1828 in order to sell their corpses to Scottish anatomist Robert Knox. In Stevenson's story, the anatomist is referred to as Mr. K__…