as, to quote from Mrs. Orr's "Life and Letters of Robert Browning" (1891):
"She looked much younger than her age, which [Robert Browning]
only recently knew to have been six years beyond his own." -- A. L., 1996.
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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.


Chapter 9.

Browning's allusions to death of his wife; Miss Browning
resides with her brother from 1866; 1868, collected works published;