“I merely lacked gullibility, and saw, at the first glance, the whole unmistakable humbug and insincerity of the Literary Life.”
About Robert Williams Buchanan
18 August 1841–10 June 1901
On a warm August morning in 1841, in the quiet Staffordshire village of Caverswall, Robert Williams Buchanan was born on August 18. He entered a world already marked by ideological fervor and social upheaval, for his father, Robert Buchanan senior, was no ordinary parent but a passionate advocate of Robert Owen's…