Regan, Patrick. “Theatre Reviews”. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901).
Robert Williams Buchanan
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Standard Name: Buchanan, Robert Williams
Used Form: R. W. Buchanan
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Residence | Harriett Jay | |
Publishing | Constance Naden | 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... |
Publishing | B. M. Croker | 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 |
Author summary | Harriett Jay | 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... |
Performance of text | Harriett Jay | 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... |
Performance of text | Harriett Jay | 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. The title is sometimes given as... |
Performance of text | Harriett Jay | 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. |
Performance of text | Harriett Jay | 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. “Index”. Times, No. 35147, p. 11. 35147 (10 March 1897): 11 Regan, Patrick. “Theatre Reviews”. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901). |
Occupation | Harriett Jay | 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... |
Occupation | Harriett Jay | HJ
opened in a male role (that of Cecil Brookfield, son of the heroine) in Buchanan
's Lady Clare at the Globe Theatre
. “Notices”. Times, No. 30784, p. 8. 30784 (03 April 1883): 8 “The Times Column Of New Books and New Editions”. Times, No. 30820, p. 6. 30820 (15 May 1883): 6 |
Occupation | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | DGR
was strenuously attacked for his Poems by R. W. Buchanan
in October 1871 as a proponent of The Fleshly School of Poetry. Marsh, Jan. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 431-2 |
Occupation | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 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... |
Occupation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | 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
... |
Literary responses | Harriett Jay | 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. Jay, Harriett. My Connaught Cousins. F.V. White. 3: front matter |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1739 (1861): 259 |
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