Chapter 8.

March 1849, birth of Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning;

Browning writes his "Christmas Eve and Easter Day";

"Casa Guidi Windows" commenced; 1850, they go to Rome;

"Two in the Campagna"; proposal to confer poet-laureateship on Mrs. Browning;

return to London; winter in Paris; summer in London; Kenyon's friendship;

return in autumn to Casa Guidi; Browning's Essay on Shelley

for the twenty-five spurious Shelley letters; midsummer at Baths of Lucca,

where "In a Balcony" was in part written; winter of 1853-4 in Rome;

record of work; "Pen's" illness; "Ben Karshook's Wisdom"; return to Florence;

(1856) "Men and Women" published; the Brownings go to London;

in summer "Aurora Leigh" issued; 1858, Mrs. Browning's waning health;

1855-64 comparatively unproductive period with R. Browning;

record of work; July 1855, they travel to Normandy; "Legend of Pornic";

Mrs. Browning's ardent interest in the Italian struggle of 1859;

winter in Rome; "Poems before Congress"; her last poem, "North and South";

death of Mrs. Browning at Casa Guidi, 28th June 1861.

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