For biographical material important books are:
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The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett 1845-1846_, twovolumes, 1902, Harper Brothers. _The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Edited with BiographicalAdditions by Frederic G. Kenyon._ Macmillan, 1897. (Two volumes in one,1899.) _The Life and Letters of Robert Browning_ by Mrs. A. Sutherland Orr in1891. A new edition, revised and in part rewritten by Mr. Frederick G.Kenyon, was brought out by Houghton, Mifflin and Company in 1908. Mrs.Orr and Mr. Kenyon were both friends of Browning and could speak withauthority on many details of his life. _Robert Browning, Personalia_, by Edmund Gosse. Houghton Mifflin andCompany, 1890. This book consists of a reprint of two articles, one from_The Century Magazine_ on "The Early Career of Robert Browning," and onefrom _The New Review_ entitled "Personal Impressions." These articlesare of exceptional interest because Mr. Gosse lived near Mr. Browning atWarwick Crescent and they were on terms of close friendship. In_Critical Kit-Kats_, 1896, Mr. Gosse gives the story of _Sonnets fromthe Portuguese_. _Robert Browning._ In _Bookman Biographies_, edited by W. RobertsonNicholl. Hodder and Stoughton, London. Many interesting illustrations. _The Century Magazine_ for 1900 and 1902 gives Mrs. Bronson's account ofBrowning at Asolo and at Venice.
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