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Isobel "Belle" Osbourne Strong Field (September 18, 1858 – June 26, 1953) was a writer and the daughter of Fanny Stevenson and sister of Lloyd Osbourne. Through her mother's second marriage, she was a stepdaughter of Robert Louis Stevenson .
Biography He was born on February 28, 1878, in Indianapolis, Indiana , to Edward Salisbury and Sarah Mills Hubbard Field. [1] He was the husband of Isobel Osbourne (the step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson ) and he was step-father of playwright Austin Strong (Isobel's son from a former marriage).
Isobel Osbourne (strong) field (1858-1953) The first child of Fanny and Samuel, Isobel “Belle” Stewart Osbourne, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on September 18, 1858. At the age of five she accompanied her mother to the Nevada silver mines to live with her prospector father. By the time she settled in the San Francisco Bay Area, Belle ...
An educated woman, Fanny was married at 17 to Samuel Osbourne, an officer in the Union Army. They had a daughter, Isobel “Belle”, a year later. Their lives changed when Samuel went to serve in the Civil War. Afterwards, Sam left for the silver mines of Nevada to find his fortune and later sent for his wife and daughter.
(Belle Strong, taken from a journal entry for 24 September 1894 and included in Memories of Vailima, by Isobel Field and Lloyd Osbourne [New York: Scribner’s, 1902], pp. 96-97). “She is my wife’s daughter, my secretary, my amanuensis, my woman-Friday on my desert island, my finder of things, my last assistance, my oasis, my staff of hope, my grove of peace, my anchor, my haven in a storm.
Fanny Stevenson. Frances Matilda Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson (10 March 1840 – 18 February 1914) was an American magazine writer. [1] [2] She became a supporter and later the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, and the mother of Isobel Osbourne, Samuel Lloyd Osbourne, and Hervey Stewart Osbourne. [3]
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Dec 10, 2013 · When she learned that her husband was maintaining yet another mistress across the bay in San Francisco, Fanny had had enough. She gathered up her children, packed their bags, took a train across country, and boarded a ship bound for Belgium. Fanny was 35, Isobel was 16, Lloyd was 7, and Hervey was 4.
