Year |
Poetry |
Plays |
Novels |
Essays |
Other |
Magazines etc. |
c. 1855 |
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First poems published in Scottish newspapers. |
1857 |
Poems & Love Lyrics |
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1859 |
Mary, and other Poems |
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1860 |
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July 14:
Pansies by Fanshawe Brook, Poems by "Linus", Fresh Hearts that failed Three Thousand Years ago by Anon. (Athenaeum reviews)
July 21:
Old-fashioned Wit and Humour: in Verse by William Jackson, Vathek, a Dramatic Poem by G. Y. MacMahon (Athenaeum reviews)
October 20:
Hesperus; and other Poems and Lyrics by Charles Sangster, Hugh O'Neill, the Prince of Ulster: a Poem by John O’Neill, Youthful Musings by George Gibbons (Athenaeum reviews) |
1861 |
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January 19:
The Mountain Prophet, the Mine, and other Poems by George Harris, Poems by John Dougall (Athenaeum reviews)
January 26:
The Fate of Franklin by R. D. Blackmore, God and Man by Thomas Boys (Athenaeum reviews)
February:
Becomes editor of Welcome Guest.
February 9:
Scattered Seeds by Anon. (Athenaeum review)
February 23:
Garibaldi; and other Poems by M. E. Braddon (Athenaeum review)
March 2:
Dunboy, and other Poems by T. D. O’Sullivan, Lyrics and Idylls by Gerda Fay (Athenaeum reviews)
March 9:
Wild Thyme: Verses by Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell (Athenaeum review)
March 16:
Songs of the Covenant Times by Anon. (Athenaeum review)
March 23:
Grundy’s by Anon. (Athenaeum review)
April 27:
The Prophet Enoch by James Burton Robertson (Athenaeum review)
May 11:
Christ's Company; and Other Poems by R. W. Dixon, Pilate's Wife's Dream; and Other Poems by Horace Smith (Athenaeum reviews)
June 1:
Cottage Carols; and Other Poems by John Swain (Athenaeum review)
August 10:
The Career of Franklin, an Ode; with other Poems by C. H. Abrahall.
The Threshold of Atrides by George F. Preston (Athenaeum reviews)
August 17:
The Rural Harp by Patrick Reilly, Wilfrid and Mary by St. Bo’ (Athenaeum reviews)
November 2:
Snatches of Song by W. S. Passmore (Athenaeum review)
November 9:
The History of Scotish Poetry by David Irving (Athenaeum review)
December:
A Heart Struggle. A Tale in Two Parts. Part I published in Temple Bar. |
1862 |
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The Rathboys; or Erin’s Fair Daughter
(An adaptation of Michael Banim’s Crohoore of the Billhook, written by Buchanan and Charles Gibbon.) |
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Stormbeaten: or Christmas Eve at the “Old Anchor” Inn.
(A collection of poems and short stories, written in collaboration with Charles Gibbon.) |
January:
A Heart Struggle. A Tale in Two Parts. Part II published in Temple Bar.
January 4:
The Daughters of King Daher by Thomas Hood, Israel in Egypt by Edwin Atherstone (Athenaeum reviews)
January 11:
Athelstan: a Poem by Anon., Miscellaneous Poems by John Critchley Prince (Athenaeum reviews)
March:
Lady Letitia’s Lilliput Hand. Part I published in Temple Bar.
March 1:
The World: Past, Present and Future by Andrew Park (Athenaeum review)
March 15:
Baal by Anon., Country Musings by W. B. Graham, Records of 1861 by Edward West (Athenaeum reviews)
March 22:
Sir Tristem published in Once A Week.
March 29:
The Last Regret by Anon. (Athenaeum review)
April:
Lady Letitia’s Lilliput Hand. Part II published in Temple Bar.
April 5:
A Bit of Heart and Fancy by William Ormond, Coffee-planting in Ceylon by Aliquis, Sheen and Shade by William Billington, Songs of my Leisure Hours by Mrs. William Hobson (Athenaeum reviews)
June 7:
Cypress Leaves: a Volume of Poems by N., W. H. C., Poems, Secular, Serious and Sacred by Owen Glendower (Athenaeum reviews)
June 21:
Wife and I published in Once A Week.
July 12:
Saul; and other Poems by William Fulford (Athenaeum review)
July 19:
Maid Avoraine published in Once A Week. |
1863 |
December:
Undertones |
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1864 |
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8 October:
The Witchfinder |
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February:
The Story of David Gray published in the Cornhill Magazine. Buchanan goes to Denmark to report on the Second Schleswig-Holstein War for the Morning Star. October 8:
Danske Romanzer by Christian Winther, Nordens Guder by Adam Oelenschlager (Athenaeum reviews)
December 31:
Poems by John Le Gay Brereton , Taormina; and other Poems by Anon. (Athenaeum reviews) |
1865 |
May:
Idyls and Legends of Inverburn |
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January 21:
The Ballad-Book by William Allingham (Athenaeum review)
February 18:
Ballads and Songs of Brittany by Tom Taylor (Athenaeum review)
July 29:
Henry Holbeach, Student in Life and Philosophy by Anon. (Athenaeum review)
August 26:
Daisies in the Grass by Mr. G. Linnaeus Banks, Wayside Warbles by Edward Capern (Athenaeum reviews)
September 23:
A Summer in Skye by Alexander Smith (Athenaeum review)
September 30:
Claudia by Mrs. Frederick Prideaux, Compensation, and other Poems by Emily Jane May, Love: a Selection from the best Poets ed. by Thomas Shorter, Pietas Puerilis by Rev. Albert Eubule Evans, Songs and Poems by Mr. Netherby, “Ugolino”, and other Poems by Sybil (Athenaeum reviews)
December:
Verner Ravn: A Dramatic Sketch and Hermioné published in the first edition of The Argosy. |
1866 |
April:
Poems
(published by Roberts Brothers of Boston, includes Undertones and Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, plus two selections from London Poems.) July:
London Poems December:
Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian |
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December:
Edited Wayside Posies: original poems of the country life. |
January:
Wintering at Etrétat. Part I (under the pseudonym, ‘John Banks’) and Artist and Model published in The Argosy.
February 15:
Nell (under the title “A London Poem”) published in The Fortnightly Review.
February 17:
Elijah, and other Poems by Henry Kendall, Spring Songs, Lyrics, and Australian Melodies by J. Sheridan Moore (Athenaeum reviews)
March:
Wintering at Etrétat. Part II published in The Argosy.
March 3:
My Lost Love, Etc by James Cargill Guthrie, Ruggiero Vivaldi, and other Lays of Italy, Etc by Eleanor Darby (Athenaeum reviews)
April:
A Roman Supper (short story) and In London, March 1866 published in The Argosy.
May:
The Bachelor Dreams published in The Argosy.
July:
Cuckoo Song published in The Argosy.
August 4:
Poems and Ballads by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Athenaeum review)
September:
A London Lyric (aka The Northern Muse) published in The Argosy.
September 15:
The Session of the Poets published in The Spectator.
Immorality in Authorship published in The Fortnightly Review.
September 22:
Arne by Bjornstjerne Bjornson (translated by A. Plesner and S. Rugeley-Powers), Helenore by Alexander Ross (Athenaeum reviews)
October:
Up in an Attic published in The Argosy.
October 6:
Views and Opinions by Matthew Browne (Athenaeum review)
October 13:
Icelandic Legends by Jon Arnason (trans. Eirikr Magnusson and George E. J. Powell) (Athenaeum review)
November:
Agnes, The Lead-Melting and Convent-Robbing published in The Argosy. |
1867 |
October:
North Coast, and other Poems |
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June 8:
Reminiscences of a Highland Parish by Norman MacLeod (Athenaeum review)
June 29:
Night: a Poem by George Gilfillan (Athenaeum review)
July 27:
The Poems of Valerius Catullus (trans. James Cranstoun) (Athenaeum review)
August 15:
Charmian published in the first edition of The Broadway magazine.
August 31:
New Poems by Matthew Arnold (Athenaeum review)
October 5:
Choosing: a Poem by Anon., The Doom of the Gods of Hellas, and other Poems by A. H. W. Ingram, Poems: Sacred and Miscellaneous; by an Officer by Anon., A Rhymer’s Wallet by Cradock Newton, Songs of the People by Alan Brodrick, War and Peace; or, Two Aspects of the World. A Poem, in Two Cantos by John Werge (Athenaeum reviews)
November:
Walt Whitman published in The Broadway magazine.
December:
The Skein published in the Broadway Magazine.
December 8:
The Skein reprinted in The New York Times. |
1868 |
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February:
David Gray and other Essays, chiefly on poetry |
October:
Edited The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. December:
Edited The Life and Adventures of J. J. Audubon.
(In May, 1869, this is replaced by a revised edition, edited by Audubon’s widow and Buchanan’s name is removed from subsequent editions until The Everyman’s Library edition of 1912.) |
January 18:
The Lighthouse, Etc. by Thomas Bradfield, Lyra Silurum by W. Downing Evans, Poems by Bramantip Camenes, Sketches by the Wayside by T. Herbert, Themes and Translations by John W. Montclair (Athenaeum reviews)
January 25:
Chronicles and Characters by Robert Lytton (Athenaeum review)
February 8:
Poems by V. A. R. (Athenaeum review)
February 29:
The Retrospect of an Artist’s Life by John Kelso Hunter (Athenaeum review)
April 4:
Occasional Essays by C. W. Hoskyns (Athenaeum review)
May 2:
The Great Republic by Thomas Lake Harris, Lancashire Songs by Edwin Waugh, May-Day, and other Poems by [Ralph Waldo Emerson], Melusine, and other Poems by Edward Yardley, Out at Sea by Rev. Charles W. Denison, Paul Gerhardt’s Spiritual Songs (trans. John Kelly), Poems by Miss Dora Greenwell, Poems from the Greek Mythology by [Mr. Ollier], Songs and Ballads by Charles Swain, Stella, and other Poems by “Florenz” (Athenaeum reviews)
June 27:
Essays on Robert Browning’s Poetry by John T. Nettleship, A Study of the Works of Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate by Edward Campbell Tainsh (Athenaeum reviews)
July 4:
The Legendary Ballads of England and Scotland by J. S. Roberts, Scotish Ballads and Songs by James Maidment (Athenaeum reviews)
December 26:
The Ring and the Book. Volume I by Robert Browning (Athenaeum review) |
1869 |
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March 13:
Beatrice, and other Poems by Roden Noel, Graffiti d’Italia by W. W. Story (Athenaeum reviews)
March 20:
The Ring and the Book. Volumes II, III, IV by Robert Browning (Athenaeum review) |
1870 |
May:
The Book of Orm: a prelude to the epic |
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June:
The Syren.
(A song by Francesco Berger, with words by Robert Buchanan, from Undertones.) |
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1871 |
January:
Napoleon Fallen: a lyrical drama November:
The Drama of Kings December:
Saint Abe and His Seven Wives: a Tale of Salt Lake City |
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March:
The Land of Lorne: including the cruise of the ‘Tern’ to the Outer Hebrides |
March:
George Heath, The Moorland Poet published in Good Words.
April:
The Teuton before Paris published in St. Paul’s Magazine.
June:
Mr. John Morley’s Essays published in the Contemporary Review.
October:
The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D. G. Rossetti published in the Contemporary Review. |
1872 |
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May:
The Fleshly School of Poetry and Other Phenomena of the Day |
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February:
The “Good Genie” of Fiction: Thoughts while reading Forster’s ‘Life of Charles Dickens’ published in St. Paul’s Magazine.
March:
Tennyson’s Charm published in St. Paul’s Magazine.
May:
Faces on the Wall, a sequence of 12 sonnets, published in St. Paul’s Magazine.
August:
The Monkey and the Microscope, Buchanan’s reply to Swinburne’s Under the Microscope, published in St. Paul’s Magazine.
December:
Bjornsterne Bjornson published in the Contemporary Review. |
1873 |
August:
White Rose and Red: a love story |
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December:
Master-Spirits |
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October:
The Gifts published in Cassell’s Magazine. |
1874 |
February:
The Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan
(3 volumes) |
August:
A Madcap Prince |
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May:
Spring Song in the City published in The Penny Illustrated Paper.
July:
The Wedding of Shon Maclean published in the Gentleman’s Magazine.
October:
The Character of Goethe published in The New Quarterly Magazine. |
1875 |
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April:
Thomas Love Peacock: A Personal Reminiscence published in the New Quarterly Magazine.
May:
A Song of a Dream published in the Gentleman’s Magazine.
June:
The Peepshow published in the Gentleman’s Magazine.
July:
The Modern Stage published in The New Quarterly Magazine. |
1876 |
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June:
Corinne |
December:
The Shadow of the Sword |
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Corinne published privately. |
January:
The Shadow of the Sword begins serialisation in the Gentleman’s Magazine.
A Critical Paper on AEschylus and Victor Hugo published in the New Quarterly Magazine.
April:
Lucretius and Modern Materialism published in the New Quarterly Magazine. |
1877 |
August:
Balder the Beautiful: a song of divine death |
January:
The Queen of Connaught
(in collaboration with Harriett Jay) |
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March:
Balder the Beautiful published in the Contemporary Review in three parts (concluding in the May edition).
September:
The Newest Thing In Journalism published in the Contemporary Review. |
1878 |
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April - October:
Edits his own weekly journal, Light.
September:
Julia Cytherea published in the Contemporary Review. |
1879 |
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April:
Isandula published in the Contemporary Review. |
1880 |
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December:
The Nine Days’ Queen |
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1881 |
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February:
Only A Vagabond
(one act play) May:
The Exiles of Erin: or St. Abe and his Seven Wives
(Title changed to The Mormons: or St. Abe and his Seven Wives) The Shadow of the Sword |
March:
A Child of Nature November:
God and the Man |
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God and the Man serialised in the Day of Rest. |
1882 |
February:
Selected Poems March:
Ballads of Life, Love, and Humour |
April:
Lucy Brandon
(adapted from Bulwer-Lytton’s Paul Clifford) |
May:
The Martyrdom of Madeline |
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December:
The Hebrid Isles. Wanderings in the Land of Lorne and the Outer Hebrides.
(A revised edition of The Land of Lorne.) |
December:
Love Me For Ever published in the Christmas supplement of the Illustrated London News. |
1883 |
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March:
Storm-Beaten (based on Buchanan’s novel, God and the Man) April:
Lady Clare
(adapted from Georges Ohnet’s Le Maître de Forges) October:
A Sailor and His Lass
(in collaboration with Augustus Harris) |
February:
Love Me For Ever December:
Annan Water |
October:
A Poet’s Sketch-Book. Selections from the prose writings of Robert Buchanan |
June:
Buchanan stages a version of J. B. Buckstone’s 1847 play, The Flowers of the Forest. |
January:
The New Abelard serialised in The Gentleman’s Magazine. |
1884 |
December:
The Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan |
A Hero in Spite of Himself
(no record of performance) September:
Bachelors
(in collaboration with Hermann Vezin, adapted from a German play by Julius Roderich Benedix) November:
Constance Lottie
(adapted from Harriett Jay’s novel Through the Stage Door) |
April:
The New Abelard September:
Foxglove Manor |
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1885 |
December:
The Earthquake |
March:
Agnes
(adapted from Molière’s L’École des Femmes.) Alone in London
(in collaboration with Harriett Jay) |
February:
Matt: A Story of a Caravan Stormy Waters October:
The Master of the Mine |
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January:
Matt serialised in The Graphic. |
1886 |
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April:
Sophia
(adapted from Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones) |
October:
That Winter Night |
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1887 |
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April:
A Dark Night’s Bridal
(a one act play based on a prose sketch by Robert Louis Stevenson) September:
The Blue Bells of Scotland October:
Fascination
(in collaboration with Harriett Jay) |
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February:
A Look Round Literature |
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1888 |
March:
A City of Dream |
January:
Partners
(adapted from Daudet’s Fromont Jeune et Risler Ainé) March:
Joseph’s Sweetheart (adapted from Fielding’s Joseph Andrews) June:
The Bride of Love
(first performed 1890) November:
Lady Gladys
(first performed 1894) A Man’s Shadow
(adapted from Jules Mary’s Roger-la-Honte) |
The Heir of Linne |
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May:
The Glasgow International Exhibition is opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Buchanan’s ode, The New Covenant, set to music by Dr. A. C. Mackenzie, is performed at the opening ceremony. |
October:
Rachel Dene: a story of Deepdale serialised in Bow Bells Weekly. |
1889 |
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January:
That Doctor Cupid June:
The Old Home November:
Theodora
(adapted from Victorien Sardou’s Théodora) December:
Man and the Woman |
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July:
On Descending into Hell: a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Henry Matthews, Q.C., Home Secretary, concerning the proposed suppression of literature |
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March:
The Modern Young Man as Critic published in the Universal Review.
August:
A Discouraged Dramatist published in The Playgoer.
December:
The Modern Drama and Its Minor Critics published in the Contemporary Review.
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February:
Clarissa
(adapted from Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa Harlowe) March:
Miss Tomboy
(adapted from Vanbrugh’s The Relapse) July:
Sweet Nancy
(adapted from Rhoda Broughton’s Nancy) August:
The English Rose
(in collaboration with G. R. Sims) September:
The Struggle for Life (adapted from Daudet’s La Lutte pour la Vie, written in collaboration with Frederick Horner) October:
The Sixth Commandment
(adapted from Dostoievsky’s Crime and Punishment) |
September:
The Moment After: a tale of the unseen |
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January:
Buchanan does uncredited work on the libretto of Marjorie, a comic opera, music by Walter Slaughter, libretto by Lewis Clifton and Joseph J. Dilley. |
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August:
The Outcast: a rhyme for the time |
April:
Marmion
(adapted from the poem by Sir Walter Scott) June:
The Gifted Lady (original title, Heredity) August:
The Trumpet Call
(in collaboration with G. R. Sims) |
May:
The Wedding Ring: a tale of to-day Come Live with Me and Be My Love: an English pastoral
(US title: Squire Kate) |
April:
The Coming Terror, and other essays and letters |
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November:
Come Live with Me and Be My Love serialised in The Illustrated London News. |
1892 |
March:
The Buchanan Ballads Old and New |
January:
Squire Kate
(adapted from La Fermière by Armand d'Artois and Henri Pagat) February:
The Squireen
(in collaboration with Aubrey Boucicault)
(no record of performance) April:
The White Rose
(adapted from Sir Walter Scott's Woodstock, written in collaboration with G. R. Sims) July:
The Lights of Home
(in collaboration with G. R. Sims) |
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A novelisation of Alone in London is published by the Aldine Publishing Company. November:
Buchanan writes the introduction to
Poems of the Hon. Roden Noel. A selection. |
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1893 |
January:
The Wandering Jew: a Christmas carol |
April:
The Black Domino
(in collaboration with G. R. Sims) December:
The Piper of Hamelin: a fantastic Opera in two acts
(with music by F. W. Allwood) |
November:
Woman and the Man |
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The Piper of Hamelin: a fantastic Opera in two acts published. |
January:
Following Richard Le Gallienne’s review of The Wandering Jew in The Daily Chronicle, a debate on the subject “Is Christianity Played Out?” occupied the Letters Page of the paper until the end of January. Buchanan contributed six letters. He also replied to an article by Dr. Joseph Parker in The Echo on January 30th. April:
Lady Kilpatrick begins serialisation in The English Illustrated Magazine. May:
Buchanan’s contribution to the ‘My First Book’ feature of The Idler. |
1894 |
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January:
The Charlatan February:
Dick Sheridan May:
A Society Butterfly
(in collaboration with Henry Murray) |
October:
Rachel Dene: a tale of the Deepdale Mills |
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June:
Red and White Heather: North Country tales and ballads |
September:
The Charlatan serialised in Bow Bells Weekly. December:
The Heir: a Dramatic Sketch in Four Chapters published in The Graphic. |
1895 |
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June:
The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown
(in collaboration with Harriett Jay) |
January:
The Charlatan
(a novelisation of Buchanan’s play, written in collaboration with Henry Murray) November:
Diana’s Hunting Lady Kilpatrick |
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April:
Buchanan writes several letters to The Star in support of Oscar Wilde. |
1896 |
March:
The Devil’s Case |
Good Old Times
(aka In Days of Old)
(first performed 1906, under the title, When Knights Were Bold) February:
The New Don Quixote The Romance of the Shopwalker June:
The Wanderer from Venus; or Twenty-four Hours with an Angel |
March:
A Marriage by Capture April:
Effie Hetherington
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February:
Is Barabbas a necessity? A discourse on publishers and publishing |
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1897 |
The Ballad of Mary the Mother: a Christmas carol (and other poems) |
March:
The Mariners of England |
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March:
A novelisation of The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown by Harriett Jay is published by Robert Buchanan. |
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1898 |
December:
The New Rome: poems and ballads of our empire |
November:
Two Little Maids from School
(an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ Les Demoiselles de St. Cyr, written in collaboration with Harriett Jay) |
March:
The Rev. Annabel Lee: a tale of to-morrow October:
Father Anthony |
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February:
Buchanan writes a preface for The Truth about the Game Laws: a record of cruelty, selfishness, and oppression by J. Connell. |
February:
Father Anthony serialised in the supplement to The Graphic, The Golden Penny. |
1899 |
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September:
Andromeda: a Tale of the Great River serialised in The Derby Mercury. December:
The Voice of “The Hooligan” published in The Contemporary Review. The End of the Century published in the Sunday Special. |
1900 |
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March:
The Diamond Necklace (aka The Queen’s Necklace)
(no record of performance) |
March:
Andromeda: an idyll of the Great River |
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February:
The Ethics of Criticism published in The Contemporary Review. May:
The Peacocks’ Feathers published in The Sphere. |
