 Jeffrey Richards traces the swashbuckling novel to the rise of Romanticism, and an outgrowth of the historical novel, particularly those of Sir Walter Scott, "... medieval tales of chivalry, love and adventure rediscovered in the eighteenth century".This type of historical novel was further developed by Alexandre Dumas.John Galsworthy said of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1888 swashbuckling romance, "The Black Arrow", that it was "a livelier picture of medieval times than I remember elsewhere in fiction."