[102] 'Agnes Tremorne,' Miss Blagden's novel.
[103] After Mrs. Browning's death, Mr. Story made a companion bust of her, and both busts were subsequently executed in marble on the commission of Mr. George Barrett, who presented them to Mr. R. Barrett Browning, in whose possession they have since remained.
[104] Cavour died on June 6, 1861.
[105] Mrs. Orr's Life and Letters of Robert Browning, p. 249.
INDEX
- Abd-el-Kader, i. 388
- Aberdeen, Lord, ii. [109]
- About, E., ii. [226]
- Æschylus, i. 118, 168, 210;
- Translation of his 'Prometheus Bound,' i. 244
- Agassiz, Miss, i. 458, 467, 468
- Alexander, Sir William, i. 106
- America, literary piracy in, i. 451;
- appreciation of Mrs. Browning's poetry, i. 118, 120, 131, 177, 178, 218, ii. [253], [364], [387];
- of Robert Browning, ii. [436];
- the slavery question, ii. [111], [411], [417], [419], [439]
- Anacreon, translation from, i. 263
- Ancona, i. 381
- Andersen, Hans Christian, ii. [446], [448]
- Andrea del Sarto, i. 121
- Appleton, Mr., ii. [133]
- Apuleius, translations from, i. 249, 250
- Arnold, Dr. Thomas, i. 206, 207
- Arnold, Matthew, i. 429
- Arnould, Mr., ii. [16]
- Arqua, ii. [9]
- 'Athenæum,' the, i. 37, 64, 69, 71, 91, 93, 95, 117, 120, 133, 180, 193, 207, 227, 256, 446, 469, ii. [171], [242], [243], [334], [366]
- 'Atlas,' the, i. 64, 69, 181, 194, 199, ii. [370]
- Austen, Jane, ii. [217]
- Austria, war with France and Italy, ii. [305] ff.
- Azeglio, Massimo d', ii. [308], [312], [389]
- Baillie, Joanna, i. 230
- Balzac, H. de, i. 319, 363, 375, 428, 442, 462, ii. [71]
- Barnes, William, i. 223
- Barrett, Alfred, brother of E.B.B., i. 2, 20, 121, ii. [18];
- marriage, ii. [207]
- Barrett, Arabel, sister of E.B.B., i. 2, 10, 19, 20, 39, 52, 70, 71, 76, 77, 81, 82, 124, 242, 270, 294, ii. [12], [18], [172], [180], [210], [235], [237], [264], [292]
- Barrett, Charles John ('Stormie'), brother of E.B.B., i. 2, 29, 86, 121, 151, 152, 189, 242, 251
- Barrett, Edward ('Bro'), brother of E.B.B., i. 2, 11, 14, 29, 42, 47, 53, 55, 74, 76, 77;
- his death, 83
- Barrett, Edward Moulton, father of E.B.B., i. 1, 2, 11, 27, 76, 82, 86, 179, 291, 407, 435, 438, 439, ii. [18], [20], [178], [180], [237];
- death, [263] ff.
- Barrett, afterwards Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, birth, i. 1;
- childhood and youth at Hope End, 3-6;
- removal to Sidmouth, 10;
- to London (74 Gloucester Place), 31;
- failure of health, ib.;
- removal to 50 Wimpole Street, 56;
- publication of 'The Seraphim,' ib. 63;
- breaking of a blood-vessel, ib.;
- removal to Torquay, 74;
- death of her brother Edward, 83;
- return to London, 91;
- publication of the 'Poems' of 1844, 180-188, 193 ff.;
- proposed journey to Italy in 1845, 266 ff.;
- love and marriage, 280 ff.;
- departure from England, ib.;
- at Pisa, 302 ff.;
- Florence, 325;
- expedition to Vallombrosa, 332 ff.;
- settlement at Casa Guidi, 365, 372;
- birth of a son, 395;
- her name suggested for the Laureateship, 449, 452;
- illness, 456, 458;
- travels, ii. [1] ff.;
- publication of 'Casa Guidi Windows,' [2];
- visit to England, [13] ff.;
- residence in Paris, [22] ff.;
- the Coup d'état in France, [30] ff.;
- second visit to London, [76];
- verses by, [81];
- return to Paris, [89];
- to Florence, [91];
- first visit to Rome, [146];
- severe illness, [202];
- visit to England, [205] ff.;
- to Paris, [215] ff.;
- last visit to England, [235] ff.;
- publication of 'Aurora Leigh,' [240];
- carnival in Florence, [256] ff.;
- visit to Bagni di Lucca, [267] ff.;
- last visit to France, [280] ff.;
- winter in Rome, [292] ff.;
- the war with Austria, [305] ff.;
- summer at Siena, [319] ff.;
- severe illness, [325];
- winter in Rome, [352] ff.;
- publication of 'Poems before Congress,' [363];
- last summer at Siena, [400];
- last winter in Rome, [408] ff.;
- death, [450] ff.
- Portraits:
- by Reade, ii. [144];
- by Miss Fox, ii. [151];
- by Leighton, ii. [310];
- by Field Talfourd, ii. [404];
- bust by Story, ii. 448 [note].
- Her knowledge of Greek literature, i. 101, 102, 242;
- opinions on religion, i. 115, 127, 159, 247, ii. [156], [420] ff.;
- on Roman Catholicism, ii. [5];
- on versification, i. 140, 156, 183;
- on female poets, i. 229-233;
- on Greek scholarship, i. 260;
- on mesmerism, i. 255-259;
- on marriage, i. 339, ii. [72], [73], [222] ff.;
- on communism, i. 363;
- on socialism, i. 467;
- protest against publication of juvenile performances, i. 454, 455, ii. [139];
- views on spiritualism, ii. [92], [104], [117], [125], [157] ff. (and see s.v.);
- on women's work and position, ii. [189], [254], [255];
- on poetry and the public, ii. [200];
- on slavery, ii. [220];
- on growing old, ii. [140];
- on death, ii. [177], [289], [291];
- on English self-satisfaction, ii. [351].
- Works:
- 'Aurora Leigh,' ii. [91], [195], [205], [228], [229], [240] ff., [302];
- 'Battle of Marathon,' i. 3, 5;
- 'Bertha in the Lane,' i. 247;
- 'Casa Guidi Windows,' i. 348, ii. [1-3], [5], [7], [12], [13];
- 'Catarina to Camoens,' ii. [200];
- 'Chaucer Modernised,' i. 84, 88;
- 'Child's Death at Florence,' i. 437;
- 'Crowned and Buried,' i. 82, 161, 222;
- 'Cry of the Children,' i. 153, 156;
- 'Cry of the Human,' i. 120, 125;
- 'Curse for a Nation,' ii. [364], [366], [378] ff.;
- 'Dead Pan,' i. 109, 127-131, 136, 177;
- 'De Profundis,' ii. [414];
- 'Drama of Exile,' i. 164, 168, 170, 171, 177, 181, 185, 186;
- 'English Poets,' i. 97, 105-107;
- 'Essay on Mind,' i. 4, 5, 70, 94, 187;
- 'Flush,' i. 153;
- 'Greek Christian Poets,' i. 96-105;
- 'Hector in the Garden,' i. 123;
- 'House of Clouds,' i. 89, 153, 462;
- 'The Island,' i. 49;
- 'Isobel's Child,' i. 73, 200;
- 'Lady Geraldine's Courtship,' i. 177, 181, 199, 201, 204, 211;
- 'Lay of the Brown Rosary,' i. 149, 150, 161;
- 'Lay of the Rose,' i. 82;
- 'Lord Walter's Wife,' ii. [443];
- 'Lost Bower,' i. 124, 195, 200;
- 'A Musical Instrument,' ii. [377], [406];
- 'My Doves,' i. 461;
- 'New Spirit of the Age,' i. 163;
- 'North and the South,' ii. [446];
- 'Poems,' of 1844, i. 164, 165, 180;
- 'Poems,' collected edition, i. 427, 436;
- 'Poems before Congress,' ii. [356], [361], [362], [363] ff., [368], [374], [399];
- 'Poet's Vow,' i. 36-39, 43, 49;
- 'A Portrait,' i. 190;
- 'Prometheus Bound,' i. 16, 18, 21, 135, 188;
- 'Psyché Apocalypté,' i. 84;
- 'Rhyme of the Duchess May,' i. 186, 247;
- 'Romance of the Ganges,' i. 52;
- 'Romaunt of Margret,' i. 36, 49, 64;
- 'Romaunt of the Page,' i. 61, 62;
- 'Runaway Slave,' i. 315, 462;
- 'Seamew,' i. 38, 461;
- 'The Seraphim,' i. 38, 39, 44, 45, 49, 56, 62-73, 110, 185, 188, 193;
- 'Song for the Ragged Schools,' ii. [185];
- 'Sonnets from the Portuguese,' i. 316, 317;
- 'Sounds,' i. 73;
- 'Stanzas on Mrs. Hemans,' i. 33;
- 'Tale of Villafranca,' ii. [333] ff.;
- 'Vision of Poets,' i. 157;
- 'Wine of Cyprus,' i. 178, 183
- Barrett, George, brother of E.B.B., i. 2, 29, 32, 33, 35, 37, 78, 151, 166, 242, ii. [19], [263], [264]
- Barrett, afterwards Cook, Henrietta, sister of E.B.B., i. 2, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 33, 41, 46, 52, 53, 55, 75, 76, 77, 242, 294, 338, 443 ff., ii. [18], [207], [210], [239], [376], [400];
- illness and death, ii. [401], [405], [414] ff.
- Barrett, Henry, brother of E.B.B., i. 2, 27, 55, 189, 242, ii. [18]
- Barrett, Octavius, brother of E.B.B., i. 2, 8, 15, 20, 173, 271, 275, ii. [18]
- Barrett, Septimus ('Sette'), brother of E.B.B., i. 2, 11, 14, 20, ii. [18]
- Bate, Miss Gerardine (Mrs. Macpherson), i. 285, 310
- Bayley, Miss, i. 262, 362, ii. [232], [233], [240]
- Bellosguardo, ii. [125], [259]
- Béranger, ii. [49], [230], [231]
- 'Blackwood's Magazine,' i. 181, 210, 213, ii. [253], [255], [387];
- poems by Mrs. Browning in, i. 304, 307, 314
- Blagden, Miss Isa, i. 456, ii. [266], [267];
- letters to, i. 456, 467, ii. [3], [98], [124], [144], [243], [283], [290], [302], [308], [320], [339], [365], [371], [373], [375], [389], [411], [414], [418], [428], [431], [447]
- Bowring, Sir John, ii. [410], [412], [440]
- Boyd, Hugh Stuart, i. 9, 17, 20;
- death, i. 368;
- letters to, i. 23, 24, 29, 32, 37, 38, 39, 44, 45, 57, 60, 61, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 77, 79, 81, 88, 89, 91, 93, 95-107, 109, 114-120, 124, 125, 138-142, 152, 154, 171, 173, 175, 176, 179, 183, 184, 192, 200, 225, 242, 246, 250, 264, 270, 279, 314, 330
- Boyd, Mrs. H.S., letter to, i. 8;
- death, i. 29
- Boyle, Miss, i. 347, 352
- Bracken, Miss A., ii. [267], [271]
- Braun, Dr., ii. [195]
- Braun, Mdme., see [Thomson]
- Brizieux, Auguste, ii. [101]
- Brontë, Charlotte, her 'Jane Eyre,' i. 360, 384, 432, 435;
- 'Shirley,' i. 429, 430, 442;
- 'Villette,' ii. [139], [142]
- Brotherton, Mrs., medium, ii. [157]
- Browning, Miss, ii. [121];
- letters to i. 321, 369, 396, 397, 402, 408, 432, 477, ii. [93], [142], [161], [167], [179], [202], [239], [241], [250], [256], [267], [268], [294], [295], [297], [307], [310], [313], [317], [319], [341], [352], [368], [396], [433], [440], [448]
- Browning, Mrs., senior, her death, i. 396 ff.
- Browning, R., senior, ii. [162], [314]
- Browning, Robert, i. 2, 5, 84, 104, 131, 133, 143, 150, 161, 163, 214, 236, 238, 246, 254, 275, 278 and passim thereafter;
- letters from, i. 334, 356, 379, 417, 423, 470, ii. [263], [267], [295], [302], [450];
- portrait, by Reade, ii. [143];
- by Fisher, ii. [160], [163];
- by Page, ii. [171], [233], [316];
- by Leighton, ii. [310];
- bust by Story, ii. [448];
- early engraving, i. 335;
- American appreciation of his work, ii. [436];
- want of appreciation in England, ii. [370].
- Works:
- 'Bells and Pomegranates,' i. 320;
- 'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon,' i. 391, 393;
- 'Christmas Eve and Easter Day,' i. 427, 432, 446, 449;
- 'Colombe's Birthday,' i. 264, ii. [91], [103], [112], [115], [116], [119];
- 'A Guardian Angel,' i. 380;
- 'In a Balcony,' ii. [121];
- Introduction to Shelley's 'Letters,' ii. [52];
- 'Men and Women,' ii. [205], [209], [218];
- 'Pippa Passes,' i. 264;
- 'Poems,' new edition, 1849, i. 361, 391;
- 'Sordello,' i. 264, ii. [228];
- 'Strafford,' ii. [436]
- Browning, Robert Wiedeman Barrett ('Penini'), i. 5, 395, and passim thereafter
- Brunnyng, Robert, i. 371
- Bulwer, Edward Lytton, afterwards first Lord Lytton, i. 16, 17, 36, 212, ii. [103], [145], [207]
- Burges, George, i. 102, 168
- Byron, Lord, his poetry, i. 113, 115
- Calvinism, thoughts on, i. 115
- Carlyle, Thomas, i. 99, 136, 194, 199. 315, 338, ii. 16, 25, 27, 210
- Carlyle, Mrs., ii. [78]
- Cartwright, W.C., ii. [346]
- Casa Guidi, i. 365, 372
- Castellani, ii. [354]
- Cavour, ii. [360], [384];
- death, ii. [449]
- Chalmers, Dr., i. 53
- Chambers, Dr., i. 57, 61, 68, 69, 71, 72, 269
- Chasles, M. Philaret, ii. [43]
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, i. 128
- Chorley, H.F., i. 71, 180, 187, 207, 307, 311, 320, 453-455, ii. [137], [173], [183];
- his 'Pomfret,' i. 271;
- 'Roccabella,' ii. [350];
- letters to, i. 191, 229, 230, 234, 255, 257, 271, 375, 393, 420, 432, 446, ii. [79], [127], [334], [350], [378], [380]
- Clive, Mrs. Archer, ii. [154]
- Clough, A.H., i. 426, 429
- Cobbe, Miss, ii. [377], [398]
- Cobden, R., i. 223, 327, ii. [356], [387]
- Cocks, Lady Margaret, i. 43
- Coleridge, S.T., i. 110, 141
- Coleridge, Mrs., i. 145
- Commeline, Miss, letters to, i. 7, 26, 53, 240
- Como, ii. [9]
- Cook, Surtees, i. 338, 443
- Cook, Mrs. Surtees, see Barrett, Henrietta
- 'Cornhill Magazine,' ii. [377], [423], [443 ff].
- Corn Law League, i. 220, 223, 239, 240
- Correggio, ii. [9]
- Crimea, war in the, ii. [179], [181], [183], [186], [189], [203]
- Crosse, Andrew, i. 72
- Crystal Palace, the, ii. [24]
- Cumming, Dr., ii. [194]
- Cushman, Miss, i. 320, ii. [90], [128]
- Cyprus, wine of, i, 175, 179, 248, 250, 315