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
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
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 novel met with great and instantaneous success,
Jay, Harriett. Robert Buchanan. AMS, 1970.
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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...
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
Robert Williams Buchanan contributed a brief preface arguing that in depicting Irish life as bitterly harsh HJ was expressing sympathy, not anti-Irish sentiment.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Like most of her novels, it had a New York edition simultaneous...
Textual Production Harriett Jay
In 1896 (a busy year for Jay), she and Buchanan co-wrote a third play, The New Don Quixote.
Regan, Patrick. “Harriett Jay”. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901).
Textual Production Harriett Jay
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...

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