Robert Williams Buchanan

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 .

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 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.

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...

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.