Browning,Robert:1835-38--removal of the family to Hatcham;renewed intimacy with his grandfather's second family;friendly relations with Carlyle;recognition by men of the day;introduction to Macready;first meeting with Forster;Miss Euphrasia Fanny Haworth;at the 'Ion'supper;prospects of 'Strafford';its production and reception;a personal deion of him at this period;Mr.John Robertson and the 'Westminster Review'[11]
Browning,Robert:1838-44--first Italian journey;a striking experience of the voyage;preparations for writing other tragedies;meeting with Mr.John Kenyon;appearance of 'Sordello';mental developments;'Pippa Passes';Alfred Domett on the critics;'Bells and Pomegranates';explanation of its title.
List of the poems;'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon',written for Macready;Browning's later account and discussion of the breach between him and Macready;'Colombe's Birthday';other dramas;The 'Dramatic Lyrics';'The Lost Leader';Browning's life before his second Italian journey;in Naples;visit to Mr.Trelawney at Leghorn [19]
Browning,Robert:1844-55--introduction to Miss Barrett;his admiration for her poetry;his proposal to her;reasons for concealing the engagement;their marriage;journey to Italy;life at Pisa;Florence;Browning's request for appointment on a British mission to the Vatican;settling in Casa Guidi;Fano and Ancona;'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon'at Sadler's Wells;birth of Browning's son,and death of his mother;wanderings in Italy:
the Baths of Lucca;Venice;friendship with Margaret Fuller Ossoli;winter in Paris;Carlyle;George Sand.Close friendship with M.Joseph Milsand;Milsand's appreciation of Browning;new edition of Browning's poems;'Christmas Eve and Easter Day';the Essay on Shelley;summer in London;introduction to Dante G.Rossetti;again in Florence;production of 'Colombe's Birthday'(1853);again at Lucca,Mr.and Mrs.W.Story;first winter in Rome;the Kembles;again in London (1855):Tennyson,Ruskin [32]
Browning,Robert:1855-61--publication of 'Men and Women';'Karshook';'Two in the Campagna';another winter in Paris:Lady Elgin;legacies to the Brownings from Mr.Kenyon;Mr.Browning's little son;a carnival masquerade;Spiritualism;'Sludge the Medium';Count Ginnasi's clairvoyance;at Siena;Walter Savage Landor;illness of Mrs.Browning;American appreciation of Browning's works;his social life in Rome;last winter in Rome;Madame du Quaire;Mrs.Browning's illness and death;the comet of 1861[18]
Browning,Robert:1861-69--Miss Blagden's helpful sympathy;journey to England;feeling in regard to funeral ceremonies;established in London with his son;Miss Arabel Barrett;visit to Biarritz;origin of 'The Ring and the Book';his views as to the publication of letters;new edition of his works,selection of poems.Residence at Pornic;a meeting at Mr.F.Palgrave's;his literary position in 1865;his own estimate of it;death of his father;with his sister at Le Croisic;Academic honours:letter to the Master of Balliol (Dr.Scott);curious circumstance connected with the death of Miss A.Barrett;at Audierne;the uniform edition of his works;publication of 'The Ring and the Book';inspiration of Pompilia [21]
Browning,Robert:1869-73--'Helen's Tower';at St.-Aubin;escape from France during the war (1870);publication of 'Balaustion's Adventure'and 'Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau';'Herve Riel'sold for the benefit of French sufferers by the war;'Fifine at the Fair';mistaken theories of that work;'Red Cotton Nightcap Country'[8]
Browning,Robert:1873-78--his manner of life in London;his love of music;friendship with Miss Egerton-Smith;summers spent at Mers,Villers,Isle of Arran,and La Saisiaz;'Aristophanes'Apology';'Pacchiarotto','The Inn Album',the translation of the 'Agamemnon';deion of a visit to Oxford;visit to Cambridge;offered the Rectorships of the Universities of Glasgow and St.Andrews;deion of La Saisiaz;sudden death of Miss Egerton-Smith;the poem 'La Saisiaz':
Browning's position towards Christianity;'The Two Poets of Croisic',and Selections from his Works [13]
Browning,Robert:1878-81--he revisits Italy;Spluegen;Asolo;Venice;favourite Alpine retreats;friendly relations with Mrs.Arthur Bronson;life in Venice;a tragedy at Saint-Pierre;the first series of 'Dramatic Idyls';the second series,'Jocoseria',and 'Ferishtah's Fancies'[10]
Browning,Robert:1881-87--the Browning Society;Browning's attitude in regard to it;similar societies in England and America;wide diffusion of Browning's works in America;lines for the gravestone of Mr.Levi Thaxter;President of the New Shakspere Society,and member of the Wordsworth Society;Honorary President of the Associated Societies of Edinburgh;appreciation of his works in Italy;sonnet to Goldoni;attempt to purchase the Palazzo Manzoni,Venice;Saint-Moritz;Mrs.Bloomfield Moore;at Llangollen;loss of old friends;Foreign Correspondent to the Royal Academy;publication of 'Parleyings'[15]
Browning,Robert:his character --constancy in friendship;optimism and belief in a direct Providence;political principles;character of his friendships;attitude towards his reviewers and his readers;attitude towards his works;his method of work;study of Spanish,Hebrew,and German;conversational powers and the stores of his memory;nervous peculiarities;his innate kindliness;attitude towards women;final views on the Women's Suffrage question [13]
