Jane Whyte Balfour

One of Robert Louis Stevenson’s maternal aunts. Stevenson very fond of his aunt who he described as “the most amiable of women, and the family maid of all works.”

Chief of our aunts — not only I,
But all the dozen nurslings cry–
What did the other children do?
And what was childhood, wanting you?

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON – “To Auntie”