The Mind Creative March 2014
Epilogue:
Robert Louis Stevenson was born
in 1850. This was more than 60
years after the death of Deacon
Brodie.
Strangely
enough,
Stevenson’s father knew the
infamous Brodie who had in fact,
actually built a cabinet for
Stevenson’s father. This cabinet
now has its home in the Writers’
Museum in the Scottish capital.
Stevenson, based on the tales
that he heard from his father,
wrote a play in 1880, called
Deacon Brodie, based on the
Robert Louis Stevenson
misadventures of the disgraced
Town Councillor. However, the very enigma of dual personalities
continued to interest Stevenson and in 1886, he wrote the
fascinating novel “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”;
which is widely considered to be a classic horror story.
Today you can even
visit a tavern in
Edinburgh aptly
called the “Deacon
Brodie Tavern”.
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