Author:Robert Williams Buchanan
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Works
[edit]Prose
[edit]- "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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- "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)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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