Robert Williams Buchanan

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 ...

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...

The strain DGR felt from the negative reception of his Poems, and particularly the attacks of R. W. Buchanan on their sensuality, took their toll: he became paranoid and delusional, and a week later...

DGR was strenuously attacked for his Poems by R. W. Buchanan in October 1871 as a proponent of The Fleshly School of Poetry.

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...

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).

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...

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.

In 1896 (a busy year for Jay), she and Buchanan co-wrote a third play, The New Don Quixote.

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...

A prompt-book for a New York performance of 1907 survives at the New York Public Library .HJ and Robert Buchanan (who had now been dead for six years) had co-written this farce under the...

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 .

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...

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.

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.