1. Life and literary activity of Charles Kingsley. Historical fiction genre in Literature

3. Analysis of historical fiction genre elements in the novels Westward Hol and Hereward the wake :"Last of the English" by Charles Kingsley.
Westward Ho! is about love, hate, honour, and vengeance. It's also about 16th century religion, colonization, and warfare. The novel covers a very packed thirteen years in the life of one Amyas Leigh, who goes out questing for adventure, treasure and for the honour of Queen Elizabeth. In between the first and second chapters, he manages to sail around the world with Francis Drake, but that doesn't seem half as difficult or as dangerous as some of his later adventures. He fights Spanish invaders in Ireland, travels to Newfoundland with the Humphrey Gilbert expedition, and hunts down spies and rebels. He also wants to save a girl named Rose, who--you might not be expecting this--isn't his sweetheart. Rose, in fact, can't seem to commit to anyone, so the local admirers make a pact that they'll do the honourable thing and let her make up her own mind. Unfortunately, Rose repays them by falling for a manipulative Spaniard and then eloping to South America with him. Even worse, Rose, as a Protestant, has sailed into the dragon's den of the Spanish Inquisition. Can the Brotherhood find her and bring her home before it's too late?
And if you thought that was the end of the story, there is still the Spanish Armada to fight.
Kingsley wrote, "It is in memory of these men, their voyages and their battles, their faith and their valor, their heroic lives and no less heroic deaths, that I write this book; and if now and then I shall seem to warm into a style somewhat too stilted and pompous, let me be excused for my subject's sake, fit rather to have been sung than said, and to have proclaimed to all true English hearts, not as a novel but as an epic (which some man may yet gird himself to write), the same great message which the songs of Troy, and the Persian wars, and the trophies of Marathon and Salamis, spoke to the hearts of all true Greeks of old."