Sea shanty until that decade. A well-known early example, though not strictly speaking a reference to a shanty, is the song "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest", which was invented by Robert Louis Stevenson for his novel "Treasure Island" (1883). Quotes of "Blow the Man Down" were particularly plentiful. Rudyard Kipling romanticized the idea of the sailor's sea song within the poetic genre with his works "The First Chantey" and "The Last Chantey" (1893). While shanties were historically understood as work songs, the word "shanty" has often been used in popular culture since the mid-20th century as a catch-all term that
Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson Square of Sevens, and the Parallelogram: An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note" by Robert Antrobus that was supposedly written in 1735. However, it is believed that he was the author. In 1906, under the pseudonym Xavier Mayne, Stevenson published the homosexually themed novel "", and in 1908 a sexology study, "The Intersexes", a defense of homosexuality from a scientific, legal, historical, and personal perspective. Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson (January 29, 1858, Madison, New Jersey – July 23, 1942, Lausanne, Switzerland) was an American author. He used the pseudonym Xavier Mayne. Edward Prime Stevenson was born