Author:Robert Williams Buchanan

Robert Williams Buchanan
(1841–1901)

Robert Williams Buchanan

Works

Prose

• "Jessie Cameron's Bairn" in Once a Week, Series 1, 5 (1861)
• David Gray and other Essays (1868)
• The Land of Lome, vivid sketches of a yachting tour to the Hebrides (1871)
• The Fleshly School of Poetry and Other Phenomena of the Day (1872) (transcription project)
• In Memoriam, R. S. Candlish, Died October 19, 1873: Sermons, Preached in Free St. George's, Edinburgh, on Sabbath, November 2, 1873 (1873) (external scan)
• Master Spirits (1874)
• A Look round Literature (1887)
• The Coming Terror and other Essays (1891)

Novels

• The Shadow of the Sword (1876) (external scan)
• God and the Man (1881)
• A Child of Nature (1881)
• The Martyrdom of Madeline (1882) (external scan)
• Love Me for Ever (1883)
• Annan Water (1883)
• Foxglove Manor (1885) (external scan)
• The New Abelard (1884)
• The Master of the Mine (1885)
• Matt: A Tale of a Caravan (1885) (external scan)
• Stormy Waters (1885)
• That Winter Night (1886)
• The Heir of Linne (1887)
• The Moment After (1890)
• Come Live with Me and be My Love (1891)
• Woman and the Man (1893)
• Lady Kilpatrick (1895)
• The Charlatan (1895)
• Diana's Hunting (1895) (external scan)
• Marriage by Capture (1896)
• Effie Hetherington (1896)
• The Rev. Annabel Lee (1898)
• Father Anthony (1898)
• Andromeda; an idyll of the great river (1900) (start transcription)

Poetry

• The Session of the Poets,'In the 'Spectator' on 15 Sept. 1866 under the pseudonym 'Caliban'
• "Souvenirs" in Once a Week, Series 1, 5 (1861)
• "Sir Tristem" in Once a Week, Series 1, 6 (1862)
• "Wife and I" in Once a Week, Series 1, 6 (1862)
• "Maid Avoraine" in Once a Week, Series 1, 7 (1862)
• Undertones (1863) (external scan)
• "Merlin and the White Death" in Once a Week, Series 1, 10 (1864)
• "A'Beckett's Troth" in Once a Week, Series 1, 10 (1864)
• "Una, the Moon-Fay; or, The Vision of Chastity" in Once a Week, Series 1, 11 (1864)
• Idyls and Legends of Inverburn (1865)
• London Poems (1866) (external scan)
• Ballad Stories of the Affections (1866), translated from Danish
• North Coast and other Poems (1867)
• Tragic Dramas from History, with Legendary and Other Poems (1868) (external scan)
• The Book of Orm: A Prelude to the Epic (1870) (external scan)
• Napoleon Fallen (1871)
• The Drama of Kings (1871)
• St. Abe and his Seven Wives (1872, anon.)
• White Rose and Red: A Love Story (1873) (external scan)
• Poems (1874), in 3 vols.
• Selected Poems (1882)
• Ballads of Life, Love, and Humour (1882)
• Poetical Works (1884)
• The Earthquake; or, Six Days and a Sabbath (1885) (frontpiece has bibliography) (external scan)
• The City of Dream (1888)
• The Outcast (1891)
• Buchanan's Poems for the People (1892)
• The Wandering Jew (1893)
• Red and White Heather (1894)
• The Devil's Case (1896) (bitter but virile).
• The Ballad of Mary the Mother: A Christmas Carol (1897) (external scan)
• "Justinian" in Littell's Living Age, 144 (1861), from The New Rome (1899) (external scan)
• The New Rome (1900)
• Poems, Songs, and Other Writings (1901) (external scan)

Plays

• A Nine Days' Queen (1880)
• The Shadow of the Sword (1881)
• Stormbeaten (1883)
• Lady Clare (1883), a version of 'Le Maitre de Forges.' by Georges Ohnet
• Alone in London (1884), co-authored by Harriett Jay
• Sophia (1886), based "Tom Jones" by Henry Fielding
• Joseph's Sweetheart (1888), based on "Joseph Andrews" by Henry Fielding
• A Man's Shadow (1889), an adaptation of "Roger La Honte"
• The English Rose
• The Trumpet Call
• The White Rose
• The Lights of Home
• The Black Domino
• Clarissa Harlowe (1890)
• Miss Tomboy (1890), adapted from "Relapse" by John Vanbrugh
• The Bride of Love (1890)
• Sweet Nancy (1890), a dramatic version of Miss Rhoda Broughton's novel 'Nancy.
• The Sixth Commandment (1890), based on "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodore Dostoievski
• The Charlatan (1894)
• The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown (1895)
• Two Little Maids from School (1898) adapted from "Les Demoiselles de St. Cyr"

Works about Buchanan

• "Buchanan, Robert," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Buchanan, Robert Williams," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Buchanan, Robert Williams," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.
• "Buchanan, Robert," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)