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The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses
''The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses'' is an 1888 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is both an historical adventure novel and a romance novel. It first appeared as a serial in 1883 with the subtitle "A Tale of Tunstall Forest" beginning in ''Young Folks; A Boys' and Girls' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature,'' vol. XXII, no. 656 (Saturday, June 30, 1883)〔( clip of the first installment of ''The Black Arrow'' )〕 and ending in the issue for Saturday, October 20, 1883〔Robert Louis Stevenson, ''The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson'', Charles Curtis Bigelow and Temple Scott, eds., 10 vols. (Philadelphia: John D. Morris and Company, 1906), 3:xi: "EDITORIAL NOTE Under the title of ''The Black Arrow: A Tale of Tunstall Forest'', by Captain George North, this story ran serially in ''Young Folks'' from June 30 to October 20, 1883." Cf. also Colonel W.F. Prideaux, C.S.I., ''A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson'', (London: Frank Hollings, 1903), 61.〕—Stevenson had finished writing it by the end of summer.〔"With the end of the summer came the last chapter of ''The Black Arrow'' and our return to Hyères, where my husband took up other more exciting work" .〕 It was printed under the pseudonym Captain George North.〔( description of the clip of the first installment of ''The Black Arrow'' )〕 He alludes to the time gap between the serialization and the publication as one volume in 1888 in his preface "Critic (Dickens's 'Cricket' ) on the Hearth": "The tale was written years ago for a particular audience…"〔Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, ''The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses'', Biographical Edition with a preface by Mrs. Stevenson, (New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1905), xvii.〕 The Paston Letters were Stevenson's main literary source for ''The Black Arrow''.〔Ruth Marie Faurot, "From Records to Romance: Stevenson's ''The Black Arrow'' and ''The Paston Letters''," ''Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900'', vol. 5 (Autumn 1965) 4:677.〕
==Plot introduction==
''The Black Arrow'' tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton. Outlaws in Tunstall Forest organized by Ellis Duckworth, whose weapon and calling card is a black arrow, cause Dick to suspect that his guardian Sir Daniel Brackley and his retainers are responsible for his father's murder. Dick's suspicions are enough to turn Sir Daniel against him, so he has no recourse but to escape from Sir Daniel and join the outlaws of the Black Arrow against him. This struggle sweeps him up into the greater conflict surrounding them all.
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