Robert Williams Buchanan

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.He detected the influence of...

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...

RB was convinced that Nancy would be a failure (and threatened in that case to stop writing), as she told Richard Bentley in a letter bemoaning a negative review in Pall Mall. It...

The praise in 1869 was resounding. Robert Buchanan in the Athenæum hailed it as beyond all parallel the supremest poetical achievement of our time, and the London Quarterly was convinced that Pompilia would rank among...

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

It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter.Blackwood refused it. George Meredith , as a reader for Chapman and Hall , rejected it, advising SG

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...

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

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...

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

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 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.

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 lost the last remaining member of her adopted family when her co-writer Robert Buchanan died from the lingering effect of a stroke he had suffered eight months before.