Robert Williams Buchanan

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.

The first production of Charles Marlowe's (HJ 's) and Robert Buchanan 's co-written melodrama The Mariners Of England opened at the Olympic Theatre . Like most of their plays, it did very well.

HJ published her only non-fiction book and the last writing she worked on, a life of her late adoptive father: Robert Buchanan : Some Account of His Life, His Life's Work, and His Literary Friendships...

A now largely-forgotten novelist and playwright, HJ was prolific and popular in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. She wrote eight novels, the majority devoted to the contemporary state of Ireland from an Anglo...

For reasons unknown, HJ (then aged about seven or eight) was adopted by her elder sister and brother-in-law, Mary and Robert Buchanan (who, it seems, were unable to have children of their own).

Although Robert Williams Buchanan was technically HJ 's brother-in-law, he adopted her while she was still a child. He was a poet, novelist, and playwright, and his writing life became closely intertwined with hers, as...

Robert Buchanan developed an unnamed illness, and following the death of his father the family (now composed of Buchanan, his mother Margaret , his wife Mary , and the child HJ ) moved north to...

Buchanan 's notorious literary and personal attack on Swinburne (titled The Fleshly School of Poetry and glancing also at Dante Gabriel Rossetti ) with the controversy which it generated, took place during his years at...