Andrew Halliday

Who was Andrew Halliday?

Andrew Halliday [formerly Andrew Halliday Duff] was a Scottish journalist and dramatist.

Halliday was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and in 1849 he went to London, and discarding the name of Duff, devoted himself to literature. His first engagement was with the daily papers, and his work having attracted the notice of Thackeray, he was invited to write for the Cornhill Magazine.

From 1861 he contributed largely to All the Year Round, and many of his articles were republished in collected form. He was also the author, alone and with others, of a great number of farces, burlesques and melodramas and a peculiarly successful adapter of popular novels for the stage. Of these Little Em'ly, his adaptation of David Copperfield, was warmly approved by Dickens himself, and enjoyed a long run at Drury Lane.