The Poet Robert Browning and His Kinsfolk by His Cousin Cyrus Mason

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Note on the Text

Short-Title Bibliography

Part One

Explains why the writer, the only surviving member of the Browning Family possessed of the necessary information, feels it a duty to refute published mis-statements.

Part Two

Traces the Poet's ancestors--"Bruning"--"Brounying"--and "Browning" by the aid of Christian Names and by writings in existing family Books, up to the period when the Grandfather of the Poet, left Woodyats in Dorsetshire for London.

Part Three

Describes the position of the Dorsetshire Brownings in London, their mode of life and the eudcation of the Poet's Father.

Part Four

Gives, from personal observation, particulars of the Poet's Courtship of Elizabeth Barrett, their Marriage and flight from England.

Part Five

Speaks of Family disappointment--changes in the New Cross Browning Household--the attempt of the Poet's Father to ameliorate his altered position and his banishment from England.

Textual Notes

Manuscript Alterations

Variant Spellings

Pencil Markings

Appendix I: Newspaper Accounts of Von Müller v. Browning

Appendix II: Newspaper Articles Based on Mason's Manuscript

Appendix III: Genealogy

Afterword

I. Ancestry

II. Family

III. Attitude