Robert Williams Buchanan

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.

For reasons unknown, HJ (then aged about seven or eight) was adopted by her elder sister and brother-in-law, Mary and Robert Buchanan (who, it seems, were unable to have children of their own).

Although Robert Williams Buchanan was technically HJ 's brother-in-law, he adopted her while she was still a child. He was a poet, novelist, and playwright, and his writing life became closely intertwined with hers, as...

Buchanan 's notorious literary and personal attack on Swinburne (titled The Fleshly School of Poetry and glancing also at Dante Gabriel Rossetti ) with the controversy which it generated, took place during his years at...

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...

RB was convinced that Nancy would be a failure (and threatened in that case to stop writing), as she told Richard Bentley in a letter bemoaning a negative review in Pall Mall. It...

Robert Buchanan in the Athenæum speculated that the author was a woman, and called the poem a rhythmical paraphrase of the prose popularized by the Times Correspondents.He detected the influence of...

Critical reaction to The Priest's Blessing was again mixed. The Graphic found this powerful study of the heart and mind of a savage unmarred by any word of conventional sentiment. The North...

The praise in 1869 was resounding. Robert Buchanan in the Athenæum hailed it as beyond all parallel the supremest poetical achievement of our time, and the London Quarterly was convinced that Pompilia would rank among...

HJ opened in a male role (that of Cecil Brookfield, son of the heroine) in Buchanan 's Lady Clare at the Globe Theatre .

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 ...

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...

Alone in London opened in its title city by 22 October 1885, and in it Jay again took the stage. On 22 February of the next year she and Buchanan took this play on the...

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...