Browning
Browning names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Browning ROBERT, an English poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT, an English poet, born in Camberwell, May 7, 1812. His first dramatic poem, "Pauline," which appeared anonymously in 1833, was followed two years later by "Paracelsus," "Strafford" (1837); "Sordello" ROBERT BROWNING (1840), and a series of plays and dramatic lyrics under the title of "Bells and Pomegranates" (1841-1846). In 1846 he married Elizabeth Barrett, and resided in Florence until her death in 1861, when he returned to London. "The Ring and the Book" was published in 1869. His other works include "Christmas Eve and Easter Day" (1850); "Men and Women" (1855); "Dramatis Personæ" (1864); "Balaustion's Adventure" (1871); "Fifine at the Fair" (1872); "Red-Cotton Nightcap Country" (1873); "Dramatic Idylls" (1879-1880); "Jocoseria" (1883); "Ferishtah's Fancies" (1884); and "Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day" (1887). He died in Venice, Dec. 12, 1889. BROWN-SÉQUARD (-sa-kär), ÉD- OUARD, a Franco-American physiologist and physician, was born in Mauritius in 1818, his father being a seacaptain from Philadelphia, who married on the island a lady named Séquard. The son studied in Paris, and graduated M. D. in 1846. He devoted himself mainly to physiological research, and receievd numerous prizes, French and British, for the results of valuable experiments on blood, muscular irritability, animal heat, the spinal cord, and the nervous system. In 1864 he became Professor of Physiology at Harvard, but in 1869 returned to Spain as Professor of Pathology in the School of Medicine. In 1878 he succeeded Claude Bernard as Professor of Experimental Medicine at the Collège de France. His publications include lectures on "Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System" (Philadelphia, 1860); on "Paralysis of the Lower Extremities" (1860); and on "Nervous Affections" (1873). He died in Paris, April 1, 1894.
Browning ELIZABETH BAR- RETT, an English poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELIZABETH BAR- RETT, an English poet, born in Durham, March 6, 1809. In September, 1846, she married Robert Browning. Her chief poems are "The Seraphim" (1838); "Romaunt of the Fage" (1839); "The Drama of Exile" (1844); "A Vision of Poets" (1844); "The Cry of the Children" (1844); "Casa Guidi Windows" (1851); "Aurora Leigh" (1856). Her "Sonnets from the Portuguese" are among the noblest of love poems. The "Romance of the Swan's Nest," the "Rhyme of the Duchess May," the "Romaunt of Margret," "Bertha in the Lane," and "Isabel's Child," are romantic and original ballads. "Prometheus Bound," a metrical translation of Æschylus, was published in 1850. She died in Florence, June 30, 1861.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The biographical outline Collier's gave in 1921 still stands, with one firm correction: Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born on 6 March 1806 at Coxhoe Hall in County Durham, not 1809, and the earlier date has been dropped from modern reference works. Reputations have shifted more than facts. Collier's treats Robert as the major figure and Elizabeth largely as the author of the "noblest of love poems"; since the 1970s feminist criticism has restored "Aurora Leigh" and "The Cry of the Children" to serious study, while Robert is now read less as the Victorian sage of the Browning Societies than as the inventor of the dramatic monologue in poems like "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover." The page also carries two slips of the printer: "Romaunt of the Fage" should be "Page," and Brown-Séquard returned in 1869 to Paris, not Spain.
Written for this edition, 2026.