Robert Williams Buchanan

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

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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).
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...
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...
Publishing B. M. Croker
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
Publishing Constance Naden
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...
Residence Harriett Jay
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...
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/.
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...
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.
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Blackwood refused it. George Meredith , as a reader for Chapman and Hall , rejected it, advising SG
Textual Production Harriett Jay
The novel met with great and instantaneous success,
Jay, Harriett. Robert Buchanan. AMS.
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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...

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