Robert Williams Buchanan

Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake ...

The indices to its bound volumes list both tales and serial tales without naming the authors—even though, as named on the pages where their work actually appears, they include such luminaries as Robert Buchanan and...

The strain DGR felt from the negative reception of his Poems, and particularly the attacks of R. W. Buchanan on their sensuality, took their toll: he became paranoid and delusional, and a week later...

DGR was strenuously attacked for his Poems by R. W. Buchanan in October 1871 as a proponent of The Fleshly School of Poetry.

Despite the strain and health problems, in his later years DGR worked intermittently at painting and writing, composing the pieces The Stealthy School of Criticism (published in the Athenæum on 16 December 1871) and Scotch...

She wrote the piece because she was incensed by Oxford professor John Campbell Shairp 's attack on Rossetti (which built on criticism begun by Robert Buchanan a decade and a half earlier).

William R. Hughes counted twenty-one shorter publications by CN from 1881 onwards, mostly in journals under the signatures of Constance Arden, C.N., or unusually Constance C.W. Naden. They begin with Hylo-Zoism v...

In order to reduce expenses yet again Robert and Mary Buchanan , with HJ (who was now in her teens), moved to remote Rossport in County Mayo, Ireland.

Alone in London opened in its title city by 22 October 1885, and in it Jay again took the stage. On 22 February of the next year she and Buchanan took this play on the...

The novel met with great and instantaneous success, though it was frequently assumed to be the work of Charles Reade . A New York edition appeared that same year, and successive British editions followed...

Robert Buchanan began publishing novels and plays, whose success enabled his family, including HJ , to move back from Rossport in western Ireland to London.

Critical reaction to The Priest's Blessing was again mixed. The Graphic found this powerful study of the heart and mind of a savage unmarred by any word of conventional sentiment. The North...

HJ opened in a male role (that of Cecil Brookfield, son of the heroine) in Buchanan 's Lady Clare at the Globe Theatre .

Robert Williams Buchanan contributed a brief preface arguing that in depicting Irish life as bitterly harsh HJ was expressing sympathy, not anti-Irish sentiment. Like most of her novels, it had a New York edition simultaneous...

HJ travelled with Robert Buchanan to Philadelphia to oversee the production of their jointly written Alone in London (which did very well). They crossed to New York, where Jay made her American stage debut.