# Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson — Sailing Alone Around the World character guide

> Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson in Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mrs. Stevenson, Stevenson

**First appearance:** 0021-xx

## Who they are

Wife of the writer, met by the narrator in Samoa.

## Relationships

### [Spray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sailing_alone_around_the_world_se/characters/spray)

_social_

Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson has a social connection to the Spray, possibly as a host or admirer of the voyage.

## In the story

### [Sailing Alone Around the World](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sailing_alone_around_the_world_se/chapters/sailing-alone-around-the-world)

An individual encountered during the journey, representing the cultural connections made along the way.

### [Seventy-two Days Without a Port](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sailing_alone_around_the_world_se/chapters/xii)

She visits the Spray and invites Captain Slocum to Vailima. She gifts him with four volumes of sailing directories, writing a personal inscription in the first one.

### [Chapter XV: The Arafura Sea and the Voyage to Keeling Cocos](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sailing_alone_around_the_world_se/chapters/xv)

Her gift of bamboo from Samoa is used as a spinnaker pole on the Spray.

### [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sailing_alone_around_the_world_se/chapters/xviii)

Not directly mentioned, but Stevenson's book 'An Inland Voyage' is referenced.

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