Robert Williams Buchanan

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).

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...

Robert Buchanan developed an unnamed illness, and following the death of his father the family (now composed of Buchanan, his mother Margaret , his wife Mary , and the child HJ ) moved north to...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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 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.