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| Born, Camberwell England | 1812 |
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| 1820 | Begins boarding school in Pecham |
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| Writes his first poems | 1826 |
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| 1828 | Attends London University for one semester |
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| Anonymously publishes Pauline | 1833 |
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| | | 1834 | Travels to St. Petersburg with a diplomat, a friend of his Uncle. |
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| Paracelius is published | 1835 |
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| | | 1836 | "Madhouse Cells" published in the "Monthly Repository" |
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| Strafford, a play, is published and produced | 1837 |
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| | | 1838 | Takes his first trip to Italy in order to complete Sordello, which receives critical condemnation when published in 1840 |
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| The series "Bells and Pomegranates" is begun | 1841 |
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| | | 1842 | Publishes Dramatic Lyrics, which includes "My Last Duchess"
Elizabeth Barrett publishes a complimentary article on Robert in the "Athenaeum" |
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"A Blotch in the 'Scutcheon" published and produced
Second visit to Italy | 1843 |
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| | | 1844 | Publishes "Colombe's Birthday," though the play was never produced
Elizabeth Barrett speaks kindly of Browning's "Pomegranates" in her poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" |
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Publishes Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
First nine sections of "The Flight of the Duchess" published in "Hood's Magazine"
Writes a letter in praise of Elizabeth Barrett's poems
Declares his love to Elizabeth | 1845 |
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| | | 1846 | Completes his series "Bells and Pomegranates" with the plays "Luria," and "A Soul's Tragedy"
Secretly marries Elizabeth against her father's wishes
The couple moves to Florence, Italy |
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| Elizabeth has her first miscarriage | 1847 |
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| | | 1848 | Elizabeth has her second miscarriage
Robert writes "The Guardian Angel," the only poem he'll write in those first two years in Italy |
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Robert "Pen" Barrett-Browning is born
Robert's mother dies
Prelude is published, a collection of previous works | 1849 |
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| | | 1850 | Christmas Eve and Easter Day are published
Elizabeth's third miscarriage |
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Paris and London trips
Meets Rosetti, Kingsley, and Tennyson | 1851 |
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| | | 1852 | Robert writes his critical introduction to the book Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley which came to be known as his "Essay on Shelley"
Robert's couisin, James Silverthorne dies. Five years later he is commemorated when Browning's "May and Death" is published |
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| Brownings return to Florence after their extended stay in Paris from 1851 | 1853 |
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| | | 1855 | Brownings visit Paris for one month, then move on to London
Men and Women is published. It includes "Fra Lippo Lippi" and "Andreo del Sarto," some of Browning's best work, and yet the book receives generally poor reviews |
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Elizabeth's father dies. There is no reconciliation to Elizabeth before his death
The Brownings visit Paris, then La Havre with Robert's father and sister | 1858 |
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| | | 1859 | Brownings move to Rome for its warm weather as a result of Elizabeth's health |
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Elizabeth passes away
Robert and Pen move to London | 1861 |
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| | | 1862 | Robert arranges and publishes Elizabeth's last poems |
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Elizabeth's posthumous essays are published
Robert's second Collected Poems is published
A group of Selections is also published | 1861 |
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| | | 1864 | Dramatis Personae is published |
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| | | 1867 | Robert is awarded an Oxford Master of Arts degree and an honorary fellowship at Balliol |
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| The Ring and the Book is published after approximately five years of attentive work | 1868 |
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| | | 1871 | Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides is published
Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society also published--a continuation of a poem begun in 1860 |
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| Publishes Fifine at the Fair | 1872 |
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| | | 1873 | Red Cotton Night-Cap Country or Turf and Towers published after a visit to Normandy in '72 which sparked the subject
The public thought it too psychologically involved |
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Aristophanes' Apology: Including a Transcript from Euripides, Being the last of Balaustion was published in response to recent attacks by Neitzsche and Schlegel on Euripides.
The Inn Album written and published | 1875 |
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| | | 1876 | Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper is published |
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| The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Transcribed by Robert Browning is published | 1877 |
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| | | 1878 | Robert and his sister, Sarianna, tour Italy
The trip reawakens Browning's creative energy for the poems in Dramatic Idyls |
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| Dramatic Idyls published | 1879 |
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| | | 1880 | Browning Society established in London
Dramatic Idyls, Second Series is published in response to the public's affectionate reception of the first |
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| Robert Browning is one of very few poets to enjoy unmitigated fame within his lifetime and for these years he really enjoys it, going to balls and 'dining out' while Browning Societies spring up all over Europe and America | 1880-83 |
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| | | 1883 | Publishes Jocoseria, a book of "things gravish and gayish" according to Browning |
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| Ferishta's Fancies is published | 1884 |
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| | | 1887 | Publishes Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day, an autobiography and reminiscence in verse
Pen marries Fannie Coddingham |
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| Robert and Sarianna visit Venice | 1888 |
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| | | 1889 | Asolondo: Fancies and Facts is published
Complete Works are published, the first collection to include "Pauline,"
Robert dies in Venice
He is buried in Wesminster Abbey's Poet's Corner |
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