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 chieflyliterary; 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]