HARRIETT JAY BIBLIOGRAPHY

[The American edition of The Dark Colleen published by Lovell, Adam, Wesson & Co., 1877]

1. Novels

The Queen Of Connaught. 3 vols. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1875.

The Dark Colleen. A Love Story. 3 vols. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1876. (available at the Internet Archive)

Madge Dunraven. 3 vols. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1879. (available at the Internet Archive:
Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3)

The Priest's Blessing, or Poor Patrick’s Progress from this World to a Better. London: F. V. White and Co.,1881. (available at the Internet Archive)

Two Men and a Maid. 3 vols. London: F. V. White and Co., 1881. (available at the Internet Archive:
Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3)

My Connaught Cousins. 3 vols. London: F. V. White and Co., 1883. (available at the Internet Archive:
Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3)

Through the Stage Door. 3 vols. London: F. V. White and Co., 1883. (available at the Internet Archive:
Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3)

A Marriage Of Convenience. 3 vols. London: F. V. White and Co., 1885. (available at the Internet Archive: Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3)

The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown.  250 p. 8^o. London: R. Buchanan, 1897. (Novelisation of the play by Robert Buchanan and ‘Charles Marlowe’.)

[Reviews and press notices of Harriett Jay’s novels are available on the Harriett Jay Book Reviews page. Her four novels with an Irish setting also gain her an entry on the Princess Grace Irish Library site.]

2. Biography

Robert Buchanan: Some Account of His Life, His Life’s Work and His Literary Friendships. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903.

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The book is also available at the Internet Archive in a variety of formats.

[Reviews of Robert Buchanan are available on the Harriett Jay Book Reviews page.]

3. Contributions to Periodicals

“What is the most striking incident in your professional experience?”, The Era Almanack (1888), 27-28.
[available on this site]

“My Luggage”, Part I, The Theatre, (August 1, 1890), 68-72; Part II, (September 1, 1890), 108-113.
[available on this site]

4. Plays

All written in collaboration with Robert Buchanan:

The Queen of Connaught. ((An adaptation of Harriett Jay’s novel.) 1877.

Constance. 1884.

Lottie. (An adaptation of Harriett Jay’s novel, Through the Stage Door.) 1884.

Alone In London. 1885.

Fascination. 1887.

For the following she used the pseudonym, ‘Charles Marlowe’:

The Strange Adventures Of Miss Brown. 1895. (available at the Internet Archive)

The Romance of the Shopwalker. 1896.

Good Old Times. 1896.
(Also known as In Days Of Old. Renamed When Knights Were Bold, and, under the ‘Charles Marlowe’ pseudonym alone, first performed in 1906.)

The New Don Quixote. 1896. (Copyright performance.)

The Wanderer From Venus. 1896.

The Mariners of England. 1897.

Two Little Maids From School. (An adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ Les Demoiselles de St. Cyr.)1898.

The Diamond Necklace. 1900. (Copyright registered at the Library of Congress.)

The Heavenly Twins. (An adaptation of the novel by Sarah Grand. No production evidence, press reports run from 1896 to 1902.)

[Reviews and further information about the plays available on the Harriet Jay Theatre Reviews page.]

5. Musicals

The Maiden Queen. (A comic opera in two acts by Robert Buchanan and Harriett Jay. Music by Florian Pascal. Copyright performance at Ladbroke Hall, 6th April, 1905.) [more information]

Tulip Time. (A musical adaptation of The Strange Adventures Of Miss Brown by Worton David, Alfred Parker and Bruce Sievier, with music by Colin Wark. 1935.) [more information]

Kiss the Girls. (Also known as The Knight Was Bold. A musical adaptation of When Knights Were Bold by Emile Littler and Thomas Browne. Music by Harry Parr-Davies and lyrics by Barbara Gordon and Basil Thomas. 1943.) [more information]

6. Films

Alone In London (1915)
Directed by Larry Trimble. Starring Florence Turner. [more information]

When Knights Were Bold (1916)
Directed by Maurice Elvey. Starring James Welch.

Il Cavaliere Del Silenzio (1916 - Italy)
Directed by Oreste Visalli. Starring Giulio Del Torre.

When Knights Were Bold (1929)
Directed by Tim Whelan. Starring Nelson Keys.

When Knights Were Bold (1936)
Directed by Jack Raymond. Starring Jack Buchanan and Fay Wray.

[Further details of the four film versions of When Knights Were Bold.]

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