√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 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 Browning | | Print: 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 Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Robert Browning] 'published a sort of poem called Bells & Pomegranates in wh. there is no meaning at all.' | Caroline Clive | Robert Browning | Bells and Pomegranates | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust... | James Elroy Flecker | Robert Browning | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Sordello (1840) was undoubtedly the toughest assignment [of Browning's works]. When Douglas Jerrold venured on it wh... | Douglas Jerrold | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (1934), the Bishop of Durham Herbert Hensley Henson reminisced about Browning's "... | Herbert Hensley Henson | Robert Browning | A Death in the Desert | Unknown |
| 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 Browning | Red Cotton Nightcap Country | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 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 Browning | Men and Women | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The 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 Browning | Men and Women | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ?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 Browning | | Print: 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 Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, ... | Marie Stopes | Robert Browning | | Print: 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 |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Robert Browning | | Print: 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 Browning | | Print: 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 Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".' | Gwen Raverat | Robert Browning | Saul | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry 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 Browning | plays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning... | Henry James | Robert Browning | The Ring and the Book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful." | Hilary Spalding | Robert Browning | Luria | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry 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 Browning | poems | Unknown |
| 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 Browning | Men and Women | Print: 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 school | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on her first acquaintance with Robert Browning's poetry, 'a wonderful event': 'Mr. Macready put "Par... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The unbounded expectation I [Harriet Martineau] formed from "Paracelsus"[...] was sadly disappointed when "Sordello" ... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | Robert Browning | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Taking 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 Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836:
'I can tell you [...] of [John Kenyon's] having given hi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John 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 Browning | Pauline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, c.18 March 1840:
'Three days have nearly slipped by me since I received yo... | Walter Savage Landor | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Charles Macready, in diary entry for 3 August 1840:
'Read Browning's play [The Return of the Druses], and w... | William Charles Macready | Robert Browning | The Return of the Druses | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841:
'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; an... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841:
'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; an... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Browning | Pippa Passes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 July 1841:
'I have read the Bells & Pomegranates! -- "Pippa passes" .... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | Pippa Passes (Bells and Pomegranates, No. I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 27 November 1842:
'Finding it utterly impossible to express in prose the tumult ... | Joseph and Maria Arnould | Robert Browning | Bells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 27 November 1842:
'Finding it utterly impossible to express in prose the tumult ... | Joseph Arnould | Robert Browning | 'Waring' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1842:
'Mr Browning's last "Bells and Pomegranates" I sigh ov... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | Bells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843:
'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa pass... | Thomas Westwood | Robert Browning | Pippa Passes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Christopher Dowson, Jr., 10 March 1844:
'Yesterday I read my play to [Charles Kean] and his char... | Robert Browning | Robert Browning | Colombe's Birthday | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Bryan 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 Browning | Colombe's Birthday | Print: In proof copy |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843:
'What a pity [Tennyson] has not the intense vigour of Robert Br... | Joseph Arnould | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Westland Marston to Thomas Powell, c. October 1844:
'Mrs Marston has just read "Sordello" through. She accompl... | Mrs Marston | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dante 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 Browning | Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847:
'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often... | Joseph Arnould | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847:
'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often... | Joseph Arnould | Robert Browning | Dramatic Lyrics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '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 |
| 1850-1899 | His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th... | John Buchan | Robert Browning | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 10 November 1845:
'Before I have half re[a]d through you... | Walter Savage Landor | Robert Browning | Dramatic Romances and Lyrics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 12 November 1845:
'I read Luria's first act twice through before I slept last... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Browning | Luria (Act I) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 25 April 1850:
'I have read re-read marked learned & [italics]]really[end italic... | Joseph Arnould | Robert Browning | Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day | Print: Book |
| 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' Society | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Robert Browning | | Print: 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 Browning | Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came | Print: 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 Browning | The Inn Album | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'Before the end of February A. had read me all "The Coming of Arthur" finished... | Alfred Tennyson | Robert Browning | The Ring and the Book | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871:
'Sept. 4th. We both read Browning's Balaustion. Heracles the free, the joyous,... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Robert Browning | Balaustion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Alfred Tennyson's letter-diary to his family (1868):
'Nov. 21st. Browning read his Preface to us last night, f... | Robert Browning | Robert Browning | Preface, The Ring and the Book | Unknown |
| 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 Browning | | Print: 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 Browning | Sordello | Print: 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 Browning | Sordello | Print: 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 Browning | Sordello | Print: 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 Browning | Evelyn Hope | Print: 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 Browning | Sordello | Print: 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 Browning | Ring and the Book, The | 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... | Alfred Rawlings | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | 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... | Mr Gidham | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | 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... | Katherine Evans | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | 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... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | Print: 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 Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: 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 Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: 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 Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: 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 Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: 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 Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: 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 |