9, 88, 89, 90, 91, 206
Bossuet and Browning, 191
Browning, Clara, 21
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett:
Browning's early influence on, 92;
born March 4, 1809, 136;
her girlhood and early work, 136;
death of brother, 136;
residence in London, 137;
"The Cry of the Children," 137;
friendships with Horne and Kenyon, 137;
her appreciation of Browning's poems, 138;
correspondence with him, 138;
engagement, 139;
acquaintance with Mrs. Jameson, 143;
marriage, 145;
Mr. Barrett's resentment, 144;
journey to Paris, 145;
thence to Pisa, 146;
Browning's love for his wife, 146;
"Sonnets from the Portuguese," 147;
in spring to Florence, 150;
to Ancona, _via_ Ravenna, in June, 150;
winter at Casa Guidi, 152;
"Aurora Leigh," 152;
description of poetess, 153, 154;
birth of son in 1849, 157;
"Casa Guidi Windows," 159;
1850, spring in Rome; proposal to confer poet-laureateship on
Mrs. Browning, 159, 161;
1851, visits England, 161;
winter in Paris, 162;
she is enthusiastic about Napoleon III. and interested in Spiritualism;
summer in London, 162;
autumn at Casa Guidi, 162;
winter 1853-4 in Rome, 1856 "Aurora Leigh," death of Kenyon,
legacies, 170;
1857, death of Mr. Barrett, 170;
1858, delicacy of Mrs. Browning, 171;
July 1858, Brownings travel to Normandy; "Two Poems by Elizabeth
Barrett and Robert Browning," 1854, 173;
1860, "Poems before Congress," and death of Arabella Barrett, 160;
"North and South," 174;
return to Casa Guidi, and death on 28th June 1861, 175, 206
Browning, Reuben, 18, 19, 20
Browning, Robert:
born in London in 1812, 11, 13, 19;
his literary and artistic antecedents and contemporaries, 12-14;
his parentage and ancestry, 15, 17-19;
concerning traces of Semitic origin, 15-19;
his sisters, 20;
his father, 18;
his mother, 20, 23;
his uncle, Reuben Browning, 20;
the Camberwell home, 23;
his childhood, 22;
early poems, 25;
translation of the odes of Horace, 26;
goes to school at Peckham, 27;
his holiday afternoons, 27;
"Death of Harold," 29;
criticisms of Miss Flower and Mr. Fox, 30;
he reads Shelley's and Keats's poems, 30, 31;
he has a tutor, 33;
attends Gower Street University College, 34;
he decides to be a poet, 35;
writes "Pauline," 1832, 36;
it is published in 1833, 39;
"Pauline," 39-49;
criticisms thereon, 49;
Rossetti and "Pauline," studies at Britis