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Updated: September 10, 2025
She had always spoken of her father's new wife as Mrs Gibson, and had once burst out at Miss Brownings' with a protestation that she never would call her 'mamma. She did not feel drawn to her new relation by their intercourse that evening. She kept silence, though she knew her father was expecting an answer.
There is poetry enough in his L'Allegro and Il Penseroso to furnish forth a whole galaxy of poets. Spenser and Pope, Gray and Campbell, Goldsmith and Burns, Wordsworth and the Brownings, Tennyson and Longfellow, these are among the other foremost names in the catalogue of poets which none can afford to neglect.
A line of Brownings owned the manors of Melbury-Sampford and Melbury-Osmond, in north-west Dorsetshire; their last representative disappeared or was believed to do so in the time of Henry VII., their manors passing into the hands of the Earls of Ilchester, who still hold them.* The name occurs after 1542 in different parts of the country: in two cases with the affix of 'esquire', in two also, though not in both coincidently, within twenty miles of Pentridge, where the first distinct traces of the poet's family appear.
How proud to-day would be any man or woman who could point to Rosa Bonheur and say, 'She was my mother! And yet perhaps this idea of mine is too fantastic, the Brownings left a son and he has nothing of their genius or their enthusiasm." She moved to the grand piano and set it open; as she did so a thought of Sylvie came across her mind, and she smiled.
Molly was a little puzzled by the manner in which she had been taken possession of, like an inanimate chattel, for all the afternoon, and exclaimed, 'Please, Lady Harriet I never leave cards; I have not got any, and on the Miss Brownings, of all people; why, I run in and out whenever I like. 'Never mind, little one. To-day you shall do everything properly, and according to full etiquette.
Skipping a hundred and eighty years we find Shelley in Florence, in 1819, and it was here that his son was born, receiving the names Percy Florence. Here he wrote, as I have said, his "Ode to the West Wind" and that grimly comic work "Peter Bell the Third". But next the Brownings it is Walter Savage Landor of whom I always think as the greatest English Florentine.
The next day began our acquaintance with the Powers family, who, with the Brownings, constituted most of the social element of our sojourn. Powers had an agreeable wife, two lovely daughters, and a tall son, a few years older than I, and a pleasant companion, though he could not take the place of Eddy Thompson in my heart.
The great event of the autumn for the Brownings and for the lovers of English poetry was the publication of Aurora Leigh. Its popularity was instantaneous; within a fortnight a second edition was called for; there was no time to alter even a comma. "That golden-hearted Robert," writes Mrs Browning, "is in ecstasies about it far more than if it all related to a book of his own."
"The Kembles," writes Mrs Browning, "were our gain in Rome." Towards the end of May 1854 farewells were said, and the Brownings returned from Rome, to Florence by vettura. They had hoped to visit England, or if this should prove impracticable, to take shelter among the mountains from the summer heat.
At last he gave up his expectation, and turned to another subject; told about their journey, questioned her as to the Hamleys, the Brownings, Lady Harriet, and the afternoon they had passed together at the Manor House. But there was a certain hardness and constraint in his manner, and in hers a heaviness and absence of mind. All at once she said, 'Papa, I will call her "mamma"!
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