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Robert Louis Stevenson: class and ‘race’ in The Amateur Emigrant

Liverpool Hope University College

In 1879, an impoverished Stevenson travelled from Scotland to California in conditions almost identical to those of working-class and poverty-stricken emigrants. His account, The Amateur Emigrant, shocked the class sensitivities of his family and friends, and was not published in full in his lifetime. The experience had a profound effect on Stevenson’s personal sensibilities; his consciousness of his ambivalent position as a middle-class writer in the midst of his working-class contemporaries renders The Amateur Emigrant a remarkable revelation of the intermingled complexities of class, race and gender in late Victorian England.

Key Words: colonialism • gender • middle class • steerage • travel writing • Victorian

Race & Class, Vol. 46, No. 3, 39-54 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0306396805050017


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