Regan, Patrick. “Harriett Jay”. 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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Textual Production | Harriett Jay | In 1896 (a busy year for Jay), she and Buchanan
co-wrote a third play, The New Don Quixote. |
Textual Production | Harriett Jay | 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... |
Textual Production | Harriett Jay | A prompt-book for a New York performance of 1907 survives at the New York Public Library
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Harriett Jay | 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
. “The Novelty Theatre”. Times, No. 32198, p. 4. 32198 (8 October 1887): 4 |
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... |
Textual Production | Harriett Jay | 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. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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. Regan, Patrick. “Theatre Reviews”. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901). |
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). |
Textual Production | Harriett Jay | 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... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriett Jay | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriett Jay | 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... |
Residence | Harriett Jay | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriett Jay | 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... |
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