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John Buchan
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Standard Name: Buchan, John
Birth Name: John Buchan
Pseudonym: H. de V.
Pseudonym: Cadmus
Titled: Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield
JB
began writing and publishing before the end of the nineteenth century and continued through the first forty years of the twentieth. His output was large (especially for a man with a busy professional, non-literary career) and varied: poetry, essays, biography, history, travel writing, political writing, and serious fiction. He is best remembered for his thrillers.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Catherine Carswell | She helped W. G. Fay
to write his history of the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, The Fays of the Abbey Theatre: An Autobiographical Record (1935), which emphasises the actors and those who managed the... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Susan Tweedsmuir | In 1935 the pattern of ST
's life changed when her husband
was created Baron Tweedsmuir and appointed Governor-General of Canada. From now on she was Lady Tweedsmuir, and for the next five years she... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
's Canadian years came to an abrupt end with her husband
's death of a cerebral thrombosis on 11 February 1940, not long after the outbreak of the Second World War. |
| Friends, Associates | Alison Uttley | By the time AU
's mentor, Professor Alexander,
died (deeply upset about Hitler's rule in Germany), she had met another father-figure and important friend, the poet Walter de la Mare
. She also developed friendships... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Webb | MW
was a friend of critic Adrian Bury
and was close to Welsh writer and critic Caradoc Evans
, who met her in London and in whom she confided her hopes and fears. His widow's... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | Extended accounts of WMCN
have often been fictional. In Tales of the Peerage and the Peasantry, 1835, written by Arabella Jane Sullivan
but edited by Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre
, her life story occupies... |
| Literary responses | Mary Webb | Susan Tweedsmuir
later wrote that Gone to Earth had opened a new door to me, |
| Literary responses | Elspeth Huxley | British Book News considered that EH
had drawn to good effect on an intimate knowledge of African landscape, politics, and race issues and displayed great narrative skill, though a little lacking in psychological subtlety. British Book News. British Council. (1957): 451 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
's first publication after her husband
's death and her return to England was Canada, one of The British Commonwealth in Pictures series, a slim volume covering history and geography. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. |
| Author summary | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
, still Susan Buchan and married to a more famous author, John Buchan
, began publishing in collaboration with him. From their joint novel, published just after the First World War, she continued on... |
| Publishing | Susan Tweedsmuir | Susan Buchan (later ST
) and her husband John Buchan
together privately published a colloquy on world politics OCLC WorldCat. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under John Buchan Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. |
| Textual Production | Susan Tweedsmuir | In July 1946 there appeared ST
's first edited volume of her late husband's work: The Clearing House, a Survey of One Man's Mind: A Selection from the Writings of John Buchan, with a... |
| Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | Letters exchanged by John Buchan
with CC
and her husband are in the National Library of Scotland
. Her son carefully preserved tin trunks full of her manuscripts and papers, which he sorted through at... |
| Textual Production | Susan Tweedsmuir | Susan Buchan (later ST
) wrote and published a number of one-act plays and adaptations, mostly dating from 1932 or shortly afterwards. These include The Little House, Christmas Time, 'Bromides', A Play... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susan Tweedsmuir | The opening proper of this volume invokes with some trepidation George Sand
's statement that there is nothing more tedious than the dregs of an old régime. Tweedsmuir, Susan. A Winter Bouquet. G. Duckworth, 1954. 20 |
Timeline
1901
The publication of George Douglas Brown
's novel The House with the Green Shutters marked the first attack on the Scottish school of fiction that was afterwards known as Kailyard.
1911
Flemington, a historicalnovel by Scottish poet and fiction-writer Violet Jacob
(1863-1946), drew a long letter of praise from John Buchan
.