Robert William Buchanan

Robert William Buchanan

ScottishAugust 18, 1841 – June 10, 1901Social Protest Fiction

Buchanan was a prolific Scottish novelist and controversialist whose novels of social protest engaged with questions of poverty, religious doubt, and sexual frankness. His attack on the Pre-Raphaelites as 'The Fleshly School of Poetry' made him notorious.

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