Robert Williams Buchanan

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Standard Name: Buchanan, Robert Williams
Used Form: R. W. Buchanan

Connections

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Travel Harriett Jay
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.
Regan, Patrick. “Alone in London”. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901).
Jay, Harriett. Robert Buchanan. AMS.
226
Textual Production Harriett Jay
The novel met with great and instantaneous success,
Jay, Harriett. Robert Buchanan. AMS.
234
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...
Textual Production Harriett Jay
Robert Williams Buchanan contributed a brief preface arguing that in depicting Irish life as bitterly harsh HJ was expressing sympathy, not anti-Irish sentiment.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Like most of her novels, it had a New York edition simultaneous...
Textual Production Harriett Jay
In 1896 (a busy year for Jay), she and Buchanan co-wrote a third play, The New Don Quixote.
Regan, Patrick. “Harriett Jay”. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901).
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.
HJ and Robert Buchanan (who had now been dead for six years) had co-written this farce under the...
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
Textual Production Emily Jane Pfeiffer
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).
The entry in...
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.
Textual Production Rhoda Broughton
RB earned £1,000 for the volume rights alone, the highest she had yet received for a novel. Robert Buchanan 's theatrical adaptation entitled Sweet Nancy had an only moderately successful run on stage in 1890...
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...
Textual Production Sarah Grand
It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge.
245
Blackwood refused it. George Meredith , as a reader for Chapman and Hall , rejected it, advising SG
Textual Features Annie S. Swan
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...
Residence Harriett Jay
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Robert Williams Buchanan
Residence Harriett Jay
Robert Buchanan began publishing novels and plays, whose success enabled his family, including HJ , to move back from Rossport in western Ireland to London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Timeline

Later 1866: Robert Williams Buchanan published an essay...

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Later 1866

Robert Williams Buchanan published an essay on Immorality in Authorship in the Fortnightly Review, and, under the pseudonym of Caliban in the Spectator, attacked Swinburne in a poem called The Session of the Poets.

25 April 1870: Dante Gabriel Rossetti published a collection...

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25 April 1870

Dante Gabriel Rossetti published a collection of Poems, which included Sister Helen, Jenny, and the first part of his sonnet sequence The House of Life.

16 May 1871: Henry S. King (husband of the poet Harriet...

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16 May 1871

Henry S. King (husband of the poet Harriet Hamilton King ) set up the publishing firm H. S. King and Co. at 65 Cornhill, London; taken over by Charles Kegan Paul in 1877, it...

October 1871: Robert Williams Buchanan published in the...

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October 1871

Robert Williams Buchanan published in the Contemporary Review, under the pseudonym Thomas Maitland, his critique of what he dubbed The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D. G. Rossetti.

1876: The conflict over the morality and aesthetics...

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1876

The conflict over the morality and aesthetics of verse between Robert Williams Buchanan and Algernon Charles Swinburne came to a head in a libel suit.

31 May 1898: George Bedborough, secretary of the Legitimation...

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31 May 1898

George Bedborough , secretary of the Legitimation League which sought to change the law to improve the position of illegitimate children, was arrested, largely in an attempt to damage the League through him.

Texts

Buchanan, Robert Williams, and Harriett Jay. Alone in London.
Jay, Harriett, and Robert Williams Buchanan. Fascination. 1887.
Buchanan, Robert Williams. “Immorality in Authorship”. Fortnightly Review, Vol.
6
, pp. 289-00.
Jay, Harriett, and Robert Williams Buchanan. Shopwalker. 1896.
Jay, Harriett, and Robert Williams Buchanan. The Mariners Of England. 1897.
Jay, Harriett, and Robert Williams Buchanan. The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown. Samuel French, 1909.
Jay, Harriett, and Robert Williams Buchanan. The Wanderer from Venus. 1896.