Dared and Done

by Julia Markus

  CASA GUIDI. Courtesy of the Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University.

  ITALIAN DESPOTS, from an old engraving.

  DEMONSTRATIONS IN FLORENCE FOR THE RIGHT TO FORM A CIVIC GUARD. Courtesy of the Museo di Firenze com’era, Florence.

  POPE PIUS IX, from an old engraving.

  SARAH ANNA BROWNING. Courtesy of Wellesley College Library.

  ALFRED DOMETT AS A YOUNG MAN, by Robert Browning, Sr. Courtesy of the Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University.

  ALFRED DOMETT, by George Lance, from an old engraving.

  FLOOR PLAN OF THE BROWNINGS’ APARTMENT, sketched by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in a letter to her sister Arabel. Courtesy of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.

  CARDINAL NICHOLAS WISEMAN, from an old engraving.

  “I LIKE TO BE DESPISED.” Punch, December 7, 1850, page 233.

  THE FRASERIANS, after an engraving by Daniel Maclise.

  GEORGE SAND, by Eugène Delacroix. Courtesy of the Ordrupgaard Collection, Copenhagen.

  SARIANNA BROWNING. Courtesy of the Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University.

  WILLIAM SURTEES COOK. Reproduced by permission of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College; in the school library, Eton College.

  HENRIETTA BARRETT MOULTON BARRETT. Courtesy of Mary V. Altham.

  ROBERT WIEDEMANN “PEN” BARRETT BROWNING, by Euphrasia Fanny Haworth. Courtesy of the Wellesley College Library.

  ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE KINNEY. Courtesy of the Edmund Clarence Stedman Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.

  PEN’S SKETCH OF HIS FATHER. Courtesy of the British Museum.

  WILLIAM WETMORE STORY, at his studio among his workmen. Courtesy of Peter de Brandt.

  PALAZZO BARBERINI, ROME. Courtesy of Alinari/Art Resource, New York.

  THE GREEK SLAVE. Courtesy of Yale Art Gallery.

  SARAH DOUGHERTY PAGE, by William Page. Courtesy of Professor A. M. Hayes.

  WILLIAM PAGE, SELF-PORTRAIT. Courtesy of Detroit Institute of Art.

  ROBERT BROWNING, by William Page. Courtesy of the Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University.

  CLASPED HANDS OF THE BROWNINGS, plaster cast by Harriet Hosmer. Courtesy of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.

  PART III

  Spirit drawings produced by Elizabeth Barrett Browning or Sophie Eckley, probably during a private séance. Courtesy of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.

  PEN BROWNING, photograph. Courtesy of the Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University.

  HARRIET HOSMER, by William Page. Courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

  GEORGINA ELIZABETH “LIZZIE” BARRETT. Reproduced by permission of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College; in the school library, Eton College.

  ALFRED BARRETT MOULTON BARRETT, by his brother Octavius. Reproduced by permission of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College; in the school library, Eton College.

  DANIEL D. HOME, a spirit woodcut. Courtesy of Harry Price Library, University of London Library.

  ALFRED TENNYSON READING MAUD. Courtesy of the Edmund Clarence Stedman Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.

  ROBERT BROWNING, by D. G. Rossetti, October 1855. Courtesy of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

  ANNA JAMESON, portrait bust by John Gibson. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

  ARABEL BARRETT MOULTON BARRETT. Reproduced by permission of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College; in the school library, Eton College.

  CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN, by William Page. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

  PART IV

  “MY FIG TREE.” Reproduced from The Browning Collections (1913).

  SOPHIA MAY TUCKERMAN ECKLEY with her older half sister, HANNAH PARKMAN TUCKERMAN. Courtesy of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.

  43 VIA BOCCA DI LEONE, ROME. Courtesy of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.

  THE TERRACE AT BELLOSGUARDO, from an engraving.

  WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. Courtesy of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, MA 768, f.2.

  AUTOMATIC WRITING, produced by Sophie Eckley or Elizabeth Barrett Browning during a private séance. Courtesy of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.

  EBB WITH “BRO” AND HENRIETTA, oil by William Artaud, ca. 1818. Reproduced by permission of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College; in the school library, Eton College.

  HOPE END. Courtesy of the Wellesley College Library.

  CAMILLO BENSO DI CAVOUR, from an old engraving.

  JOHN RUSKIN, SELF-PORTRAIT. Courtesy of the Wellesley College Library.

  ELIZABETH AND PEN BARRETT BROWNING. Courtesy of the Wellesley College Library.

  ROBERT BROWNING. Courtesy of the Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University.

  ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, May 27, 1861. Courtesy of the Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University.

  PEN BROWNING on his pony, Stella. Reproduced by permission of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College; in the school library, Eton College.