Robert Barnabas Brough

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Robert Barnabas Brough (1828-1860) was an English writer. He wrote poetry, novels and was a contributor to many periodicals.

Songs of the Governing Classes, a book of radical poems, is his best known work. He also penned "The Vulture; An Ornithological Study" which was published in the December 1853 issue of Graham's Magazine, though he was not credited. The poem was later reprinted in William Evans Burton's "Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor" (1858), this time with his name attached. "The Vulture" is one of the earliest parodies of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

In 1860 Robert Brough edited the magazine the "Welcome Guest" for John Maxwell, and was editor at the time of the first contribution by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, but died soon after.

He married actress Elizabeth née Romer. They had a son in 1857, Lionel Robert Brough (1857-1906) who became an actor-manager. His brother was well known playwright William Brough the brothers co-authored various works, mostly plays. Robert Barnabas Brough was also related to the wife of Robert Brough Smyth.

[edit] Selected works

• "A Night With the Chartists," 1847.
• "The Enchanted Isle; or, Raising the Wind" (play), co-written with brother William Brough, 1848?
• "A Cracker Bon-Bon for Christmas Parties, 1852
• "The Vulture; An Ornithological Study," 1853
• "The Moustache Movement" (play), 1854
• "Songs of the Governing Classes," 1855
• "Beranger’s Songs of The Empire, The Peace, and the Restoration," 1856
• "Crinoline" (play), 1856
• "Medea, or The Best of Mothers, with a Brute of Husband" (play), 1856
• "Masaniello; or, The Fish'oman of Naples," (play) 1857
• "The Life of Sir John Falstaff," 1858
• "Ulf The Minstrel," 1859

[edit] External links

• Brough's The Life of Sire John Falstaff
• Short biography on sensationpress.com