Chapter 15

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,