This statement is relatively true. Mr. Browning's positive reasonings often do end with transcendental conclusions. They also start from transcendental premises. However closely his mind might follow the visible order of experience, he never lost what was for him the consciousness of a Supreme Eternal Will as having existed before it; he never lost the vision of an intelligent First Cause, as underlying all minor systems of causation. But such weaknesses as were involved in his logical position are inherent to all the higher forms of natural theology when once it has been erected into a dogma. As maintained by Mr. Browning, this belief held a saving clause, which removed it from all dogmatic, hence all admissible grounds of controversy: the more definite or concrete conceptions of which it consists possessed no finality for even his own mind; they represented for him an absolute truth in contingent relations to it. No one felt more strongly than he the contradictions involved in any conceivable system of Divine creation and government. No one knew better that every act and motive which we attribute to a Supreme Being is a virtual negation of His existence. He believed nevertheless that such a Being exists; and he accepted His reflection in the mirror of the human consciousness, as a necessarily false image, but one which bears witness to the truth.
His works rarely indicate this condition of feeling; it was not often apparent in his conversation. The faith which he had contingently accepted became absolute for him from all practical points of view; it became subject to all the conditions of his humanity. On the ground of abstract logic he was always ready to disavow it; the transcendental imagination and the acknowledged limits of human reason claimed the last word in its behalf. This philosophy of religion is distinctly suggested in the fifth parable of 'Ferishtah's Fancies'.
But even in defending what remains, from the most widely accepted point of view, the validity of Mr. Browning's 'message', we concede the fact that it is most powerful when conveyed in its least explicit form; for then alone does it bear, with the full weight of his poetic utterance, on the minds to which it is addressed. His challenge to Faith and Hope imposes itself far less through any intellectual plea which he can advance in its support, than through the unconscious testimony of all creative genius to the marvel of conscious life; through the passionate affirmation of his poetic and human nature, not only of the goodness and the beauty of that life, but of its reality and its persistence.
We are told by Mr. Sharp that a new star appeared in Orion on the night on which Robert Browning died. The alleged fact is disproved by the statement of the Astronomer Royal, to whom it has been submitted; but it would have been a beautiful symbol of translation, such as affectionate fancy might gladly cherish if it were true. It is indeed true that on that twelfth of December, a vivid centre of light and warmth was extinguished upon our earth. The clouded brightness of many lives bears witness to the poet spirit which has departed, the glowing human presence which has passed away. We mourn the poet whom we have lost far less than we regret the man: for he had done his appointed work; and that work remains to us. But the two beings were in truth inseparable. The man is always present in the poet; the poet was dominant in the man. This fact can never be absent from our loving remembrance of him. No just estimate of his life and character will fail to give it weight.
Index
[The Index is included only as a rough guide to what is in this book. The numbers in brackets indicate the number of index entries: as each reference, short or long, is counted as one, the numbers may be misleading if observed too closely.]
Abel, Mr. (musician) [1]
Adams, Mrs. Sarah Flower [2]
Albemarle, Lord [1]
Alford, Lady Marian [1]
Allingham, Mr. William [1]
American appreciation of Browning [1]
Ampere, M. [1]
Ancona [1]
Anderson, Mr. (actor) [1]
Arnold, Matthew [1]
Arnould, Mr. (afterwards Sir Joseph) [1]
Ashburton, Lady [1]
Asolo [4]
Associated Societies of Edinburgh, the [1]
Athenaeum, the (review of 'Pauline') [2]
Audierne (Finisterre, Brittany) [1]
Azeglio, Massimo d' [1]
Balzac's works, the Brownings' admiration of [2]
Barrett, Miss Arabel [4]
Barrett, Miss Henrietta (afterwards Mrs. Surtees Cook [Altham]) [2]
Barrett, Mr. (the poet's father-in-law) [3]
Barrett, Mr. Laurence (actor) [1]
Bartoli's 'De' Simboli trasportati al Morale' [1]
Benckhausen, Mr. (Russian consul-general) [1]
Benzon, Mr. Ernest [1]
Beranger, M. [2]
Berdoe, Dr. Edward: his paper on 'Paracelsus, the Reformer of Medicine' [1]
Biarritz [1]
Blackwood's Magazine (on 'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon') [1]
Blagden, Miss Isa [5]
Blundell, Dr. (physician) [1]
Boyle, Dean (Salisbury) [1]
Boyle, Miss (niece of the Earl of Cork) [2]
Bridell-Fox, Mrs. [3]
Bronson, Mrs. Arthur [5]
Browning, Robert (grandfather of the poet): account of his life,
two marriages, and two families [1]
Browning, Mrs. (step-grandmother of the poet) [2]
Browning, Robert (father of the poet): marriage;
clerk in the Bank of England; comparison between him and his son;
scholarly and artistic tastes; simplicity and genuineness of his character;
his strong health; Mr. Locker-Lampson's account of him;
his religious opinions; renewed relations with his father's widow
and second family; death [10]
Browning, Mrs. (the poet's mother): her family; her nervous temperament
transmitted to her son; her death [3]
Browning, Mr. Reuben (the poet's uncle),
(incl. Lord Beaconsfield's appreciation of his Latinity) [2]
Browning, Mr. William Shergold (the poet's uncle),
(incl. his literary work) [2]
Browning, Miss Jemima (the poet's aunt) [1]
Browning, Miss (the poet's sister),
(incl. comes to live with her brother) [16]
Browning, Robert: 1812-33--the notion of his Jewish extraction disproved;
his family anciently established in Dorsetshire; his carelessness
as to genealogical record; account of his grandfather's life
and second marriage; his father's unhappy youth; his paternal grandmother;
his father's position; comparison of father and son;
the father's use of grotesque rhymes in teaching him;
qualities he inherited from his mother; weak points in regard to health
throughout his life; characteristics in early childhood;
great quickness in learning; an amusing prank; passion for his mother;
fondness for animals; his collections; experiences of school life;
extensive reading in his father's library; early acquaintance
with old books; his early attempts in verse; spurious poems in circulation;
'Incondita', the production of the twelve-year-old poet;
introduction to Mr. Fox; his boyish love and lasting affection
for Miss Flower; first acquaintance with Shelley's and Keats' works;
his admiration for Shelley; home education under masters,
his manly accomplishments; his studies chiefly literary; love of home;
associates of his youth: Arnould and Domett; the Silverthornes;
his choice of poetry as a profession; other possible professions considered;
admiration for good acting; his father's support in his literary career;
reads and digests Johnson's Dictionary by way of preparation [37]
Browning, Robert: 1833-35--publication of 'Pauline';
correspondence with Mr. Fox; the poet's later opinion of it;
characteristics of the poem; Mr. Fox's review of it; other notices;
Browning's visit to Russia; contributions to the 'Monthly Repository':
his first sonnet; the 'Trifler' (amateur periodical);
a comic defence of debt; preparing to publish 'Paracelsus'; friendship with
Count de Ripert-Monclar; Browning's treatment of 'Paracelsus';
the original Preface; John Forster's article on it in the 'Examiner' [16]
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 description 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'; description of a visit to Oxford;
visit to Cambridge; offered the Rectorships of the Universities
of Glasgow and St. Andrews; description 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]
Browning, Robert: his last years--marriage of his son;
his change of abode; symptoms of declining strength;
new poems, and revision of the old; journey to Italy: Primiero and Venice;
last winter in England: visit to Balliol College;
last visit to Italy: Asolo once more; proposed purchase of land there;
the 'Lines to Edward Fitzgerald'; with his son at Palazzo Rezzonico;
last illness; death; funeral honours in Italy; 'Asolando' published
on the day of his death; his burial in Westminster Abbey;
the purport and tendency of his work [16]
Browning, Robert: letters to-- Bainton, Mr. George (Coventry) [1]
Blagden, Miss Isa [12]
Fitz-Gerald, Mrs. [8]
Flower, Miss [2]
Fox, Mr. [4]
Haworth, Miss E. F. [3]
Hickey, Miss E. H. [1]
Hill, Mr. Frank (editor of the 'Daily News') [2]
Hill, Mrs. Frank [1]
Keep, Miss [3]
Knight, Professor (St. Andrews) [5]
Lee, Miss (Maidstone) [1]
Leighton, Mr. (afterwards Sir Frederic) [4]
Martin, Mrs. Theodore (afterwards Lady) [2]
Moulton-Barrett, Mr. G. [2]
Quaire, Madame du [1]
Robertson, Mr. John (editor of 'Westminster Review', 1838) [1]
Scott, Rev. Dr. [1]
Skirrow, Mrs. Charles [4]
Smith, Mr. G. M. [3]
Browning, Robert: Works of-- 'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon' [2]
'A Death in the Desert' [2]
'Agamemnon' [1]
'Andrea del Sarto' [1]
'Aristophanes' Apology' [1]
'Artemis Prologuizes' [1]
'Asolando' [5]
'At the Mermaid' [2]
'A Woman's Last Word' [1]
'Bad Dreams' [1]
'Balaustion's Adventure' [3]
'Bean Stripes' [1]
'Beatrice Signorini' [1]
'Bells and Pomegranates' (incl. meaning of the title,
and list of the dramas and poems) [7]
'Ben Karshook's Wisdom' [1]
'Bishop Blougram' [1]
'By the Fireside' [1]
'Childe Roland' [1]
'Christmas Eve and Easter Day' [2]
'Cleon' [1]
'Colombe's Birthday' [4]
'Crescentius, the Pope's Legate' [1]
'Cristina' [1]
'Dramatic Idyls' [4]
'Dramatic Lyrics' [1]
'Dramatis Personae' [5]
'Essay on Shelley' [1]
'Ferishtah's Fancies' [2]
'Fifine at the Fair' [2]
'Flute-Music' [1]
'Goldoni', sonnet to [1]
'Helen's Tower' (sonnet) [1]
'Herve Riel' (ballad) [2]
'Home Thoughts from the Sea' [1]
'How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix' [1]
'In a Balcony' [2]
'In a Gondola' [2]
'Ivan Ivanovitch' [3]
'James Lee's Wife' [3]
'Jocoseria' [1]
'Johannes Agricola in Meditation' [1]
'King Victor and King Charles' [3]
'La Saisiaz' [4]
'Luria' [1]
'Madhouse Cells' [1]
'Martin Relph' [1]
'May and Death' [1]
'Men and Women' [3]
'Ned Bratts' [1]
'Numpholeptos' [1]
'One Word More' [2]
'Pacchiarotto' [3]
'Paracelsus' [8]
'Parleyings' [2]
'Pauline' [10]
'Pippa Passes' (incl. the Preface to) [5]
'Ponte dell' Angelo' [1]
'Porphyria's Lover' [1]
'Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau' [3]
'Red Cotton Nightcap Country' [3]
'Rosny' [1]
'Saint Martin's Summer' [1]
'Saul' [1]
'Sludge the Medium' [2]
'Sordello' [7]
'Strafford' [3]
'The Epistle of Karshish' [1]
'The Flight of the Duchess' [1]
'The Inn Album' [3]
'The Lost Leader' [1]
'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' [1]
'The Return of the Druses' [3]
'The Ring and the Book' [3]
'The Two Poets of Croisic' [2]
'The Worst of It' [1]
'Two in the Campagna' [1]
'White Witchcraft' [1]
'Why I am a Liberal' (sonnet) [2]
'Women and Roses' [1]
Browning, Mrs. (the poet's wife: Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett):
Browning's introduction to her; her ill health;
the reasons for their secret marriage; causes of her ill health;
happiness of her married life; estrangement from her father;
her visit to Mrs. Theodore Martin; 'Aurora Leigh': her methods of work;
a legacy from Mr. Kenyon; her feeling about Spiritualism;
success of 'Aurora Leigh'; her sister's illness and death;
her own death; proposed reinterment in Westminster Abbey [14]
Browning, Mrs.: extracts from her letters--on her husband's devotion;
life in Pisa, and on French literature; Vallombrosa; their acquaintances
in Florence; their dwelling in Piazza Pitti; 'Father Prout's' cure
for a sore throat; apartments in the Casa Guidi; visits to Fano and Ancona;
Phelps's production of 'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon';
birth of her son; the effect of his mother's death on her husband;
wanderings in northern Italy; the neighbourhood of Lucca;
Venice; life in Paris (1851); esteem for her husband's family;
description of George Sand; the personal appearance of that lady;
her impression of M. Joseph Milsand; the first performance
of 'Colombe's Birthday' (1853); Rome: death in the Story family;
Mrs. Sartoris and the Kembles; society in Rome; a visit to Mr. Ruskin;
about 'Penini'; description of a carnival masquerade (Florence, 1857);
impressions of Landor; tribute to the unselfish character
of her father-in-law; on her husband's work; on the contrast
of his (then) appreciation in England and America;
Massimo d' Azeglio; on her sister Henrietta (Mrs. Surtees Cook);
on the death of Count Cavour [34]
Browning, Mr. Robert Wiedemann Barrett (the poet's son): his birth;
incidents of his childhood; his pet-name--Penini, Peni, Pen;
in charge of Miss Isa Blagden on his mother's death;
taken to England by his father; manner of his education;
studying art in Antwerp; with his father in Venice (1885); his marriage;
purchase of the Rezzonico Palace (Venice); death of his father there [14]
Browning, Mrs. R. Barrett [2]
Browning, Mr. Robert Jardine (Crown Prosecutor in New South Wales) [1]
Browning Society, the: its establishment [1]
Brownlow, Lord [1]
Bruce, Lady Augusta [1]
Bruce, Lady Charlotte (wife of Mr. F. Locker) [1]
Buckstone, Mr. (actor) [1]
Buloz, M. [1]
Burne Jones, Mr. [2]
Burns, Major (son of the poet) [1]
Californian Railway time-table edition of Browning's poems [1]
Cambo [1]
Cambridge, Browning's visit to [1]
Campbell Dykes, Mr. J. [6]
Carducci, Countess (Rome) [1]
Carlyle, Mr. Thomas [6]
Carlyle, Mrs. Thomas (incl. anecdote) [2]
Carnarvon, Lord [1]
Carnival masquerade, a [1]
Cartwright, Mr. and Mrs. (of Aynhoe) [3]
Casa Guidi (Browning's residence at Florence) [2]
Cattermole, Mr. [1]
Cavour, Count, death of [1]
Channel, Mr. (afterwards Sir William), and Frank [1]
Chapman & Hall, Messrs. (publishers) [2]
Cholmondeley, Mr. (Condover) [3]
Chorley, Mr. [1]
Cini, Dr. (Venice) [1]
Clairvoyance, an instance of [1]
Coddington, Miss Fannie (afterwards Mrs. R. Barrett Browning) [1]
Colvin, Mr. Sidney [1]
Corkran, Mrs. Fraser [2]
Cornaro, Catharine [3]
Cornhill Magazine: why 'Herve Riel' appeared in it [2]
Corson, Professor [1]
Crosse, Mrs. Andrew [1]
'Croxall's Fables', Browning's early fondness for [1]
Curtis, Mr. [1]
Dale, Mr. (actor) [1]
Davidson, Captain (of the 'Norham Castle', 1838) [2]
Davies, Rev. Llewellyn [1]
Debt, Browning's mock defence of (in the 'Trifler') [1]
Dickens, Charles [5]
Domett, Alfred (incl. 'On a certain Critique of Pippa Passes') [3]
Dourlans, M. Gustave [1]
Doyle, Sir Francis H. [1]
Dufferin, Lord [1]
Dulwich Gallery [1]
Eclectic Review, the (review of Browning's works) [1]
Eden, Mr. Frederic [1]
Egerton-Smith, Miss [2]
Elgin, Lady [3]
Elstree (Macready's residence) [2]
Elton, Mr. (actor) [1]
Engadine, the [2]
Examiner (review of 'Paracelsus') [1]
Fano [1]
'Father Prout' (Mr. Mahoney) [1]
Faucit, Miss Helen--as Lady Carlisle in 'Strafford'; as Mildred
in 'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon'; as Colombe in 'Colombe's Birthday' [3]
Fiori, Margherita (Browning's nurse) [1]
Fisher, Mr. (artist) [1]
Fitzgerald, Mr. Edward [1]
Fitz-Gerald, Mrs. [1]
Florence [6]
Flower, Miss [5]
Flower, Mr. Benjamin (editor of the 'Cambridge Intelligencer') [1]
Fontainebleau [1]
Forster, Mr. John [11]
Fortia, Marquis de [1]
Fox, Miss Caroline [1]
Fox, Miss Sarah [1]
Fox, Mr. W. J. (incl. election for Oldham) [10]
Furnivall, Dr. [5]
Gaisford, Mr., and Lady Alice [1]
Galuppi, Baldassaro [1]
Gibraltar [1]
Ginnasi, Count (Ravenna) [1]
Giustiniani-Recanati, Palazzo (Venice) [1]
Gladstone, Mr. [1]
Glasgow, University of [1]
Goldoni, Browning's sonnet to [1]
Goltz, M. (Austrian Minister at Rome) [1]
Gosse's 'Personalia' [4]
Green, Mr. [1]
Gressoney Saint-Jean [1]
Guerande (Brittany) [1]
Guidi Palace (Casa Guidi) [1]
Gurney, Rev. Archer [1]
Hanmer, Sir John (afterwards Lord Hanmer) [1]
Haworth, Miss Euphrasia Fanny [2]
Haworth, Mr. Frederick [1]
Hawthorne, Nathaniel [1]
Hazlitt, Mr. [1]
Heyermans, M. (artist; Antwerp) [1]
Hickey, Miss E. H. [2]
Hill, Mr. Frank (editor of the 'Daily News', 1884) [1]
Hood, Mr. Thomas [1]
Horne, Mr. [1]
Hugo, Victor [1]
Ion, the Ion supper [1]
Jameson, Mrs. Anna [1]
Jebb-Dyke, Mrs. [1]
Jerningham, Miss [1]
Jersey [1]
Jewsbury, Miss Geraldine [1]
Joachim, Professor [1]
Jones, Mr. Edward Burne [1]
Jones, Rev. Thomas [1]
Jowett, Dr. [3]
Kean, Mr. Edmund [1]
Keats [1]
Keepsake, The [1]
Kemble, Mrs. Fanny [1]
Kenyon, Mr. John [5]
King, Mr. Joseph [1]
Kirkup, Mr. [2]
Knight, Professor (St. Andrews) [2]
Lamartine, M. de [1]
Lamb, Charles [1]
Landor, Walter Savage [5]
La Saisiaz [2]
Layard, Sir Henry and Lady [2]
Le Croisic (Brittany) [1]
Leigh Hunt [1]
Leighton, Mr. (afterwards Sir Frederic) [2]
'Les Charmettes' (Chambery: Rousseau's residence) [1]
Le Strange, Mrs. Guy [1]
Lewis, Miss (Harpton) [1]
Literary Gazette (review of 'Pauline') [1]
Literary World, the Boston, U.S. (on 'Colombe's Birthday') [1]
Llangollen [2]
Llantysilio Church [1]
Lloyd, Captain [1]
Locker, Mr. F. (now Mr. Locker-Lampson) [2]
Lockhart [1]
Lucca [4]
Lyons, Mr. (son of Sir Edmund) [1]
Lytton, Mr. (now Lord) [3]
Maclise, Mr. (artist) [2]
Macready, Mr. [5]
Macready, Willy (eldest son of the actor): his illustrations
to the 'Pied Piper' [1]
Mahoney, Rev. Francis ('Father Prout') [1]
Manning, Rev. Dr. (afterwards Cardinal) [1]
Manzoni Palace (Venice) [1]
Martin, Lady [3]
Martin, Sir Theodore [1]
Martineau, Miss [4]
Mazzini, Signor [1]
Melvill, Rev. H. (afterwards Canon) [2]
Meredith, Mr. George [1]
Mill, Mr. J. S. [3]
Milnes, Mr. Monckton (afterwards Lord Houghton) [4]
Milsand, M. Joseph [4]
Minich, Dr. (Venice) [1]
Mitford, Miss [3]
Mocenigo, Countess (Venice) [1]
Mohl, Madame [2]
Monthly Repository (incl. Browning's contributions to) [4]
Moore, Mrs. Bloomfield [2]
Morgan, Lady [1]
Morison, Mr. James Cotter [1]
Mortimer, Mr. [2]
Moulton-Barrett, Mr. George [3]
Moxon, Mr. (publisher) [4]
Murray, Miss Alma (actress) [1]
Musset, Alfred and Paul de [1]
Naples [1]
National Magazine, the: Mrs. Browning's portrait in (1859) [1]
Nencioni, Professor (Florence) [1]
Nettleship, Mr. J. T. [1]
New Shakspere Society [1]
Noel, Mr. Roden [1]
Ogle, Dr. John [1]
Ogle, Miss (author of 'A Lost Love') [1]
Osbaldistone, Mr. (manager of Covent Garden Theatre, 1836) [1]
Ossoli, Countess Margaret Fuller [1]
Oxford (incl. Browning's visit to, 1877) [2]
Palgrave, Mr. Francis [1]
Palgrave, Mr. Reginald [1]
Paris [2]
Patterson, Monsignor [1]
Phelps, Mr. (actor) [3]
Pirate-ship, wreck of [1]
Pisa [1]
Poetical contest, a Roman [1]
Pollock, Sir Frederick (1843) [1]
Pornic [2]
Powell, Mr. Thomas [2]
Power, Miss (editor of 'The Keepsake') [1]
Powers, Mr. (American sculptor) [1]
Primiero [1]
Prinsep, Mr. Val [6]
Pritchard, Captain [1]
Procter, Mr. Bryan Waller (Barry Cornwall) [4]
Quaire, Madame du [2]
Quarles' Emblemes [1]
Ravenna [1]
Ready, the two Misses, preparatory school [3]
Ready, Rev. Thomas (Browning's first schoolmaster) [2]
Regan, Miss [1]
Reid, Mr. Andrew [1]
Relfe, Mr. John (musician) [1]
Rezzonico Palace (Venice), the [2]
Richmond, Rev. Thomas [1]
Ripert-Monclar, Count de [4]
Robertson, Mr. John (editor of 'Westminster Review', 1838) [1]
Robinson, Miss Mary (now Mrs. James Darmesteter) [1]
Rome [2]
Rossetti, Mr. Dante Gabriel (incl. death of his wife) [4]
Ruskin, Mr. [1]
Russell, Lady William [1]
Russell, Mr. Odo (afterwards Lord Ampthill) [2]
Sabatier, Madame [1]
Saleve, the [2]
Sand, George [2]
Sartoris, Mrs. [4]
Saunders & Otley, Messrs. [2]
Scott, Rev. Dr. (Master of Balliol, 1867) [1]
Scotti, Mr. [1]
Scottish Art Review, the, Mr. Mortimer's 'Note on Browning' in [1]
Seraverra [1]
Sharp, Mr. [4]
Shelley (incl. Browning's Essay on; his grave) [4]
Shrewsbury, Lord [1]
Sidgwick, Mr. A. [1]
Siena [2]
Silverthorne, Mrs. [2]
Simeon, Sir John [1]
Smith, Miss (second wife of the poet's grandfather) [1]
Smith, Mr. George Murray [1]
Southey [1]
Spezzia [1]
Spiritualism (incl. a pretending medium) [2]
Spluegen [1]
St. Andrews University [1]
St.-Aubin (M. Milsand's residence) [2]
St.-Enogat (near Dinard) [1]
St.-Pierre la Chartreuse (incl. a tragic occurrence there) [2]
Stanley, Dean [1]
Stanley, Lady Augusta [1]
Stendhal, Henri [2]
Sterling, Mr. John [1]
Stirling, Mrs. (actress) [1]
Story, Mr. and Mrs. William [7]
Sturtevant, Miss [1]
Sue, Eugene [1]
Tablets, Memorial [3]
Tait's Magazine [1]
Talfourd, Serjeant [3]
Taylor, Sir Henry [1]
Tennyson, Mr. Alfred (afterwards Lord Tennyson) [2]
Tennyson, Mr. Frederick [1]
Thackeray, Miss Annie [1]
Thackeray, Mr. W. M. [2]
Thaxter, Mrs. (Celia) (Boston, U.S.) [1]
Thaxter, Mr. Levi (Boston, U.S.) [1]
Thomson, Mr. James: his application of the term 'Gothic'
to Browning's work [1]
Tittle, Miss Margaret [1]
Trelawney, Mr. E. J. (1844) [1]
Trifler, The (amateur magazine) [1]
True Sun, the (review of 'Strafford') [1]
Universo, Hotel dell' (Venice) [1]
Vallombrosa [1]
Venice [6]
Vigna, Dr. da (Venice) [1]
Wagner [1]
Warburton, Mr. Eliot [1]
Watts, Dr. [1]
Westminster, Dean of [2]
Widman, Counts [1]
Wiedemann, Mr. William [1]
Williams, Rev. J. D. W. (vicar of Bottisham, Cambs.) [1]
Wilson (Mrs. Browning's maid) [6]
Wilson, Mr. Effingham (publisher) [1]
Wiseman, Mrs. (mother of Cardinal Wiseman) [1]
Wolseley, Lady [1]
Wolseley, Lord [1]
Woolner, Mr. [1]
Wordsworth [3]
Wordsworth Society, the [2]