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...

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...

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...

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).