Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Browning

 

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1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw...Philip Inman Robert BrowningPrint: Book
1900-1945'Her first WEA summer scool at the end of the First World War, was "a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued over...Alice Foley Robert Browning'Bishop Blougram's Apology'Print: Book
1900-1945'Her first WEA summer school at the end of the First World War, was "a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued ove...Alice Foley Robert Browning'The Ring and the Book'Print: Book
1850-1899'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...Chester Armstrong Robert BrowningPrint: Book
1800-1849'Nearly the best thing she has written is L[ady] Geraldine.'Caroline Clive Elizabeth Barrett BrowningLady GeraldinePrint: Book
1800-1849[Robert Browning] 'published a sort of poem called Bells & Pomegranates in wh. there is no meaning at all.'Caroline Clive Robert BrowningBells and PomegranatesPrint: Book
1850-1899Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust...James Elroy Flecker Robert BrowningunknownPrint: Book
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1900-1945
'Sordello (1840) was undoubtedly the toughest assignment [of Browning's works]. When Douglas Jerrold venured on it wh...Douglas Jerrold Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1850-1899In Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (1934), the Bishop of Durham Herbert Hensley Henson reminisced about Browning's "...Herbert Hensley Henson Robert BrowningA Death in the DesertUnknown
1900-1945'Reading Mrs Browning's published letters in 1900, Wilfrid Blunt was reminded of how much he admired her and her husba...Wilfrid Blunt Elizabeth Barrett BrowningLettersPrint: Book
1850-1899"In the early 1870s Browning frequently dined at the Chelsea home of the newly married Sir Charles Dilke. In 1872 he ...Robert Browning Robert BrowningRed Cotton Nightcap CountryUnknown
1850-1899Letter H 25 - Late November 1855 - "It is so off ... that we all should like that poem of the Arab physician best. - F...John Ruskin Robert BrowningMen and WomenPrint: Book
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Letter H 3 - 9/2/1855 - "I will not fail to quote Mrs Browning in the book I am now about. I think more highly of her ...John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPoems, including "Drama of Exile"Print: Book
1850-1899The editor's footnote quotes a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton: 24/11/1855 - "Much of my time in Pa...Dante Gabriel Rossetti Robert BrowningMen and WomenPrint: Book
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?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go...Leslie Stephen Robert BrowningPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H 49 (late November 1856) ?Mrs Brownings poem is the finest in the English language ? poem I mean ? (not drama...John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899From the editor?s footnote to a letter sent in November 1856: ?In a letter to Miss Heaton, Rossetti was no less enthu...Dante Gabriel Rossetti Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H 85 (Latter half of March 1860) ?Mrs Browning?s verse is capital, but would have been better in prose. It is ...John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPoems before CongressPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H88 (?Mid-April 1860) ?Mrs B. is entirely good. In fact Magnificent (except her rhyme to Modena ? needlessly o...John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPoems before CongressPrint: Book
1850-1899"I have been amusing myself down here with reading Browning - some of him for the first time; & I wonder more and more...Leslie Stephen Robert BrowningPrint: Book
1900-1945'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit...Ralph Finn Robert BrowningPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...Helen Crawfurd Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPrint: Book
1850-1899'A letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabel Barrett tells of a sixty-year-old woman who believed that her mora...Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
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"Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, ...Marie Stopes Robert BrowningPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T...Neville Cardus Robert Browning[unknown]Print: Book
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''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...John Masefield Robert BrowningPrint: Book
1850-1899'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggli...Maud du Puy Robert BrowningPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under hi...Richard Litchfield Robert BrowningPrint: Book
1900-1945'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'Gwen Raverat Robert BrowningSaulPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 18 April 1864: "I got Browning's plays from J[ohn].'s [La Farge] and have been r...Henry James Robert BrowningplaysPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning...Henry James Robert BrowningThe Ring and the BookPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful."Hilary Spalding Robert BrowningLuriaPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: "One of my latest sensations was going one day to Lady Airlie's to hear Bro...Robert Browning Robert BrowningpoemsUnknown
1850-1899'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", w...George Eliot and G.H. LewesElizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape...Hilary Spalding Robert BrowningMen and WomenPrint: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolRobert BrowningPrint: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolElizabeth Barrett BrowningPrint: Book
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1900-1945
'On her deathbed Lucy [Harrison] asked Amy [Greener, her lover] to read to her from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Cate...Amy Greener Elizabeth Barrett BrowningCatarina to CamoensPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have lately read again with great delight Mrs Browning's "Casa Guidi Windows". It contains amongst other admirable ...George Eliot [pseud] Elizabeth Barrett BrowningCasa Guidi WindowsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on her first acquaintance with Robert Browning's poetry, 'a wonderful event': 'Mr. Macready put "Par...Harriet Martineau Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849'The unbounded expectation I [Harriet Martineau] formed from "Paracelsus"[...] was sadly disappointed when "Sordello" ...Harriet Martineau Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
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'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil...Edwin Muir Robert BrowningThe Pied Piper of HamelinPrint: Book
1850-1899Taking a book of Browning's poems from his pocket he showed Louis a verse which he said he could not understand...bend...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert BrowningPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836: 'I can tell you [...] of [John Kenyon's] having given hi...Elizabeth Barrett Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849John Stuart Mill to W. J. Fox, c.25 June 1833: 'I send "Pauline," having done all I could, which was to annotate co...John Stuart Mill Robert BrowningPaulinePrint: Book
1800-1849Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, c.18 March 1840: 'Three days have nearly slipped by me since I received yo...Walter Savage Landor Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849William Charles Macready, in diary entry for 3 August 1840: 'Read Browning's play [The Return of the Druses], and w...William Charles Macready Robert BrowningThe Return of the DrusesManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841: 'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; an...Thomas Carlyle Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841: 'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; an...Thomas Carlyle Robert BrowningPippa PassesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 July 1841: 'I have read the Bells & Pomegranates! -- "Pippa passes" ....Elizabeth Barrett Robert BrowningPippa Passes (Bells and Pomegranates, No. I)Print: Book
1800-1849William Charles Macready, Jr. to Robert Browning, May 1842: 'My dear Mr Browning 'I was very much obliged to you, fo...William Charles Macready Robert Browning'The Cardinal and the Dog'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 27 November 1842: 'Finding it utterly impossible to express in prose the tumult ...Joseph and Maria ArnouldRobert BrowningBells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics)Print: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 27 November 1842: 'Finding it utterly impossible to express in prose the tumult ...Joseph Arnould Robert Browning'Waring'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1842: 'Mr Browning's last "Bells and Pomegranates" I sigh ov...Elizabeth Barrett Robert BrowningBells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics)Print: Book
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843: 'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa pass...Thomas Westwood Robert BrowningPippa PassesPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning, Sr to Thomas Powell, 11 March 1843: 'I hope the enclosed may be acceptable as curiosities. They we...Robert Browning, Sr Robert Browning, Jr'On Bonaparte'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Robert Browning to Christopher Dowson, Jr., 10 March 1844: 'Yesterday I read my play to [Charles Kean] and his char...Robert Browning Robert BrowningColombe's BirthdayManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Bryan Waller Procter to Robert Browning, ?26 March 1844: 'I got your play last night then read it with very great p...Bryan Waller Procter Robert BrowningColombe's BirthdayPrint: In proof copy
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'What a pity [Tennyson] has not the intense vigour of Robert Br...Joseph Arnould Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849John Westland Marston to Thomas Powell, c. October 1844: 'Mrs Marston has just read "Sordello" through. She accompl...Mrs Marston Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1800-1849Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Robert Browning, 17 October 1847: 'It is now two or three months ago that I met, at the B...Dante Gabriel Rossetti Robert BrowningPauline, a Fragment of a ConfessionPrint: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847: 'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often...Joseph Arnould Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847: 'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often...Joseph Arnould Robert BrowningDramatic LyricsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Many thanks for your delightful letter. I am glad you are in the midst of delightful scenery and Aurora Leigh.'Richard Reginald Harding Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
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'Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth ...Edith Sitwell Robert Browning[poems]Print: Book
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'Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth ...Edith Sitwell Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSonnets from the PortuguesePrint: Book
1850-1899His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th...John Buchan Robert BrowningunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15-17 July 1845: 'Yesterday you must have wondered at me for being in such a ...Elizabeth Barrett Robert Browning'Claret and Tokay'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her p...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert Browning'Garden Fancies: I, The Flower's Name; II, Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her p...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert Browning'The Tomb at St. Praxed's (Rome, 15----.)'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her p...Elizabeth Barrett Robert Browning'The Boy and the Angel'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her p...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert Browning'The Laboratory (Ancien Regime)'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 4 October 1845: 'Your spring-song is full of beauty as you know very well [.....Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert Browning'Oh to be in England'Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 10 November 1845: 'Before I have half re[a]d through you...Walter Savage Landor Robert BrowningDramatic Romances and LyricsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 12 November 1845: 'I read Luria's first act twice through before I slept last...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert BrowningLuria (Act I)Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 25 April 1850: 'I have read re-read marked learned & [italics]]really[end italic...Joseph Arnould Robert BrowningChristmas-Eve and Easter-DayPrint: Book
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 12 January 1851: 'Now I am going to speak to you a...Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browningsonnets ['from the Portugese']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'L[eonard]W[oolf] had undertaken to write a play for the "X" Society, which had recently read Robert Browning's Parace...The 'X' SocietyRobert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in...Leonard Woolf Robert BrowningPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a C...Cornelia Sorabji BrowningunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I remembered once, years before, when I was a child of thirteen, listening in half-fascinated terror to a mistress at...Vera Brittain Robert BrowningChilde Roland to the Dark Tower CamePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have done rather an amusing paragraph or two for "Vanity Fair" on the "Inn Album". I have slated R.B. pretty handso...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert BrowningThe Inn AlbumPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Before the end of February A. had read me all "The Coming of Arthur" finished...Alfred Tennyson Robert BrowningThe Ring and the BookPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Sept. 4th. We both read Browning's Balaustion. Heracles the free, the joyous,...Alfred and Emily TennysonRobert BrowningBalaustionPrint: Book
1850-1899From Alfred Tennyson's letter-diary to his family (1868): 'Nov. 21st. Browning read his Preface to us last night, f...Robert Browning Robert BrowningPreface, The Ring and the BookUnknown
1850-1899'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente...Alfred Rawlings Robert Browning'One Word More'Print: Book
1850-1899'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente...Elizabeth Ann Smith Robert Browning'May and Death'Print: Book
1850-1899'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente...Elizabeth Ann Smith Robert Browning'Prospice'Print: Book
1850-1899'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente...Frederick J. Edminson Robert Browning'Phedippides'Print: Book
1850-1899'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente...Helen Rawlings Robert Browning'Evelyn Hope'Print: Book
1850-1899'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente...Allan Goadby Robert Browning'Garden Fancies'Print: Book
1850-1899'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente...Allan Goadby Robert Browning'Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha'Print: Book
1850-1899'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente...Pattie Stansfield Robert BrowningPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked at Mrs Browning's "last poems" in evening; not so good as I thought, depressing me with doubts of my own judge...John Ruskin Elizabeth Barret Browning[poems]Unknown
1850-1899'So much do I love it that I hated the idea of sending it to you without marking a few passages I felt you would well ...Oscar Wilde Elzabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1900-1945'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a...Charles I. Evans Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1900-1945'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a...Miss Marriage Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1900-1945'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a...Henry Marriage Wallis Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1900-1945'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the...Margery Rawlings Robert BrowningEvelyn HopePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh Robert Browning'Epilogue to Asolando'Print: Book
1850-1899'As for Sordello, I read it four times in youth, and never could make out who was speaking; yet I liked it - as one li...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit...Muriel Bowman-Smith Robert Browning'In a gondola'Print: Book
1900-1945'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro...Reginald Robson Robert BrowningRing and the Book, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro...Alfred Rawlings Robert BrowningRing and the Book, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro...Mr Gidham Robert BrowningRing and the Book, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro...Katherine Evans Robert BrowningRing and the Book, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro...Henry Marriage Wallis Robert BrowningRing and the Book, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis...Celia Cole Robert Browning'Flower's Name, The'Print: Book
1900-1945'Dined with 'A' Company. Read the Browning Love Letters at night, in bed. Disappointed, though not displeased. Felt I ...Robert Lindsay Mackay Robert BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth BarrettPrint: Book
1900-1945'Church parade. Cricket against Royal Scots. Did rather well. Won by 1 run. Reading the Browning Love letters in my sp...Robert Lindsay Mackay Robert BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth BarrettPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday 12th. August. Church parade. New minister. Rather enjoyed the sermon. Easy afternoon. Finished Vol. 1 of the B...Robert Lindsay Mackay Robert BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth BarrettPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meant to go to church, but couldn't find it, so had a fine lazy day instead. Read Browning.'Robert Lindsay Mackay Robert BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth BarrettPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1900-1945'Finished the Browning Letters - one of the biggest feats of the war! It has taken a tremendous effort of will on my p...Robert Lindsay Mackay Robert BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth BarrettPrint: Book
1900-1945'... as we drifted gaily down the sparkling river [Tigris] in perfect autumnal weather, I thought of Browning's [itali...William Collis Spackman Robert Browning"The Wanderers"Print: Book

 

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