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 | The novel met with great and instantaneous success, Jay, Harriett. Robert Buchanan. AMS, 1970. 234 |
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. |
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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