Robert Williams Buchanan

Robert Buchanan in the Athenæum speculated that the author was a woman, and called the poem a rhythmical paraphrase of the prose popularized by the Times Correspondents.He detected the influence of...

RB earned £1,000 for the volume rights alone, the highest she had yet received for a novel. Robert Buchanan 's theatrical adaptation entitled Sweet Nancy had an only moderately successful run on stage in 1890...

RB was convinced that Nancy would be a failure (and threatened in that case to stop writing), as she told Richard Bentley in a letter bemoaning a negative review in Pall Mall. It...

The praise in 1869 was resounding. Robert Buchanan in the Athenæum hailed it as beyond all parallel the supremest poetical achievement of our time, and the London Quarterly was convinced that Pompilia would rank among...

In 1894 stories by BMC appeared in the Christmas numbers of London Society (along with others by John Strange Winter and Alice Perrin ) and the Graphic (along with others by Grant Allen and Robert Buchanan

It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter.Blackwood refused it. George Meredith , as a reader for Chapman and Hall , rejected it, advising SG

HJ lost the last remaining member of her adopted family when her co-writer Robert Buchanan died from the lingering effect of a stroke he had suffered eight months before.

In 1896 (a busy year for Jay), she and Buchanan co-wrote a third play, The New Don Quixote.

Robert Buchanan was commissioned to write a melodrama (later named Alone in London) for the managers of Union Square Theatre in New York. He and HJ co-wrote the play while on board a...

A prompt-book for a New York performance of 1907 survives at the New York Public Library .HJ and Robert Buchanan (who had now been dead for six years) had co-written this farce under the...

HJ co-wrote a second play with Robert Buchanan : Fascination, this time a three-act comedy. She also played the title character in its opening at the Novelty Theatre .

Robert Buchanan and HJ 's co-written, three-act comedy The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown opened at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. Jay used a pseudonym, Charles Marlowe, for this and all later co-written...

The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown by Harriett Jay and Robert Williams Buchanan provided the libretto for the collaborative Tulip Time: A Comedy with Music, which opened nearly three years after Jay's death.

Charles Marlowe's (HJ 's) and Robert Buchanan 's co-written comedy Shopwalker opened at the Vaudeville Theatre in London (where Jay had often acted), and it did well.

Another three-act comedy, The Wanderer from Venus; or Twenty-four Hours with an Angel, co-written and produced by HJ (as Charles Marlowe) and Robert Buchanan , opened at The Grand Theatre in Croydon.