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Title: The Brownings
Their Life and Art

Author: Lilian Whiting

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THE BROWNINGS

Their Life and Art

[Illustration: ROBERT BROWNING

_From a drawing made by Field Talfourd, in Rome, 1855_]

THE BROWNINGS

Their Life and Art

by

LILIAN WHITING

Author of "The World Beautiful," "Italy
the Magic Land," "The Spiritual
Significance," Etc.

Illustrated

Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1911

Copyright, 1911,
by Little, Brown, and Company.

All rights reserved

Published, October, 1911

Printers
S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U.S.A.

INSCRIBED TO
ROBERT BARRETT BROWNING
(CAVALIERE DELLA CORONA D'ITALIA)
PAINTER, SCULPTOR, CONNOISSEUR IN ART
WITH ENCHANTING REMEMBRANCES OF HOURS IN "LA TORRE
ALL' ANTELLA" AND THE FAITHFUL REGARDS OF

LILIAN WHITING
FLORENCE, ITALY,
June, 1911

FOREWORD

The present volume was initiated in Florence, and, from its first
inception, invested with the cordial assent and the sympathetic
encouragement of Robert Barrett Browning. One never-to-be-forgotten day,
all ethereal light and loveliness, has left its picture in memory, when,
in company with Mr. Browning and his life-long friend