Robert Williams Buchanan
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Standard Name: Buchanan, Robert Williams
Used Form: R. W. Buchanan
Connections
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Performance of text | Harriett Jay | 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. The title is sometimes given as... |
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, 10 Mar. 1897, p. 11. 35147 (10 March 1897): 11 Regan, Patrick. “Theatre Reviews”. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901). |
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 | |
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 | 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, 8 Oct. 1887, p. 4. 32198 (8 October 1887): 4 |
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. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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 | 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, 2000. 245 |
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