Novel in Scotland of Anthony Trollope. In the late nineteenth century, a number of Scottish-born authors achieved international reputations. Robert Louis Stevenson's (1850–94) work included the urban Gothic novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886), which explored the psychological consequences of modernity. Stevenson was also crucial to the further development of the historical novel with historical adventures in books like "Kidnapped" (1886) and "Treasure Island" (1893) and particularly "The Master of Ballantrae" (1888), which used historical backgrounds as a mechanism for exploring modern concerns through allegory. Arthur Conan Doyle's (1859–1930) "Sherlock Holmes" stories produced the archetypal detective figure and helped
Historical romance Christianity are central themes. Charles Kingsley's "Hereward the Wake: Last of the English" (1866) tells the story of Hereward, the last Anglo-Saxon holdout against the Normans. It was Kingsley's last historical novel, and was instrumental in elevating Hereward into an English folk-hero. Tim Severin is a more recent novelist who has written several novels about the Saxons: "The Book of Dreams" (2012); "The Emperor's Elephant" (2013); "The Pope's Assassin" (2015). Robert Louis Stevenson wrote several historical romances including "The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses" (1888), and "Kidnappped" (1886). "The Black Arrow" is both a historical adventure novel