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Sunday 8 September 2019 Browning Sunday at St Marylebone Parish Church, commemorating the marriage of Elizabeth Moulton Barrett to Robert Browning. The Choral Eucharist at 11.00am will include a presentation of work by Robert and Elizabeth given by well-known actors. This will be followed by lunch and an afternoon event which will end with Afternoon Tea.

Tickets for Lunch cost £20.

See the Home Page for full details or visit www.stmarylebone.org

Friday December 13 2019 Wreath Laying and Lecture in Westmnster Abbey followed by a Reception at The Two Chairmen in Dartmouth Street.

Evensong 5 pm

Wreath Laying and Lecture 6 pm

Reception 6.45 pm at The Two Chairmen, Dartmouth Street

Recent Past Events

Saturday 9th March at 2 pm

Annual General Meeting

and Reading of Robert Browning's Love Poems

St Marylebone Parish Church, London, NW1 5LT

Following the business part of the meeting members and their guests were invited to Afternoon Tea. During Tea Michael Meredith gave an introduction to Robert Browning's Love Poems and members read from a selection of a dozen or so works.

The Annual Wreath-Laying Ceremony took place at Westminster Abbey on Friday 12th December 2018

The wreath layers:The Revd Clive Dunnico, The Robert Browning Settlement, Dr Sue Brown, and 2018 Lecturer and John Wilson Interim, Dean of University Libraries and Director of The Texas Collection, for The Armstrong Browning Library of Baylor University

Following Evensong, members of the Society gathered in Poets' Corner. After a brief address by Dr Sue Brown on the theme Reflections on Browning's remarkable relationships with some extraordinary women, wreaths were laid on behalf of The Browning Society, The Browning Settlement and The Armstrong Browning Library.

A Reception followed in The Two Chairmen in nearby Dartmouth Street.

The ledger stone designed by Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning, known as Pen Browning, (9 March 1849 – 8 July 1912)

The wreaths are of roses (The Browning Society), mixed flowers (The Browning Settlement) and Bells and Pomegranates (The Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University).

Se also:

http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/robert-browning

Charles Forbes portrait of Sarianna Browning restored by The Browning Society

Museo e archivio storico del Comune di Asolo

Past Events

Visit to Asolo April 2016

La Torricella (built by Pen Browning) from La Mura (Mrs Bronson's House)

--2016--
11 September	Choral Eucharist with readings of poetry by Robert and Elizabeth to commemorate their marriage on 12 September 1846, Lunch and Film: The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934). The Altar and Painyting by Benjamin West, PRA, before which Robert and Elizabeth wre married in 1846

15 October	Conference Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Legacies of Aurora Leigh: literature, politics, society at Westminster university, Regent Street, London

7 December	Wreath-laying Ceremony at Westminster Abbey followed by Lecture and Reception Robert Browning's grave ledger (designed by his son, Pen Browning) in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey

Some Important Dates

6 March 1806	Elizabeth Barrett Browning's birth in County Durham.

7 May 1812	Robert Browning's birth in Camberwell, London

9 March 1849	Birth of Robert Wiedeman Barrett "Pen" Browning

29 June 1861	Elizabeth's death in Florence.

September	Annual Commemmoration of the Brownings' Marriage in St Marylebone Parish Church. Choral Eucharist, poetry reading, lunch and lecture. 11 am on the Sunday nearest to 12th September.

12 September 1846	Brownings' marriage in St Marylebone Parish Church.

December	Annual Commemoration & Wreath Laying, Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, followed by Lecture and Reception. Usually during the second week of December.

12 December 1889	Robert Browning's death at Ca Rezzonico in Venice.

31 December 1889	Robert's burial in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey

8 July 1912	Death of Pen Browning