Monterey State Historic Park after him and dedicated to his memory. Stevenson lived there while recovering his health as he was crossing the United States to court his future wife Fanny Osbourne. While there, he often dined "on the cuff," as he said, at a nearby restaurant run by Frenchman Jules Simoneau which stood at what is now Simoneau Plaza. Several years later, Stevenson sent Simoneau an inscribed copy of his novel "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886), writing that it would be a stranger case still if Robert Louis Stevenson ever forgot Jules Simoneau. Stevenson wrote some articles for the
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