biographical statements about her; Richard H. Horne, who published two volumes of Mrs. Browning's correspondence, muddles the dates almost beyond elucidation ; whilst Mrs. Richmond Ritchie, who has contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography the most copious and authoritative memoir of Mrs. Browning extant, has, so far as biographical data are concerned, made "confusion worse confounded."

With examples so misleading, and material so restricted, neither accuracy nor substance sufficient for a volume might have been hoped for; but some past success in the paths of biography has encouraged me to place before the public what, with all its shortcomings, is the initial biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

JOHN H. INGRAM.

LIST OF AUTHORITIES.

The Works of E. B. Browning. 1826-1863.

A New Spirit of the Age. Edited by R. H. Horne. 1844. Letters of E. B. Browning to R. H. Horne. 1877.

Life of M. R. Mitford. Edited by A. G. L'Estrange. 1870. Letters of M. R. Mitford.

1872.

Edited by Henry Chorley.

The Friendships of M. R. Mitford. Edited by A. G. L'Estrange. 1882.

Dictionary of National Biography, vol. vii. pp. 78-82. 1886.

Passages from the Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1883.

Notes in England and Italy. By Mrs. Hawthorne. 1870. Memoirs of Anna Jameson. By G. Macpherson. 1878. Edgar Allan Poe. His Life and Letters. By John H. Ingram. 1886.

H. F. Chorley. Memoir, &c. Compiled by H. G. Hewlett. 1873.

Living Authors of Britain. By Thomas Powell. 1851.

"Notes on Slips connected with Devonshire," by W. Pengelly, F.R.S. (In Devonshire Association Report, vol. ix. pp. 354-360). 1877.

The Atlantic Monthly. Letter from W. W. Story. 1861. The Athenæum. 1825-84.

Walter Savage Landor.

1879.

Biography by John Forster.

The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt, vol. ii. 1862. Yesterdays with Authors. Article on "M. R. Mitford."

By J. T. Fields. 1873.

The Quarterly Review.

1840.

"Modern English Poetesses."

At Home and Abroad. By Bayard Taylor. 1880.
Browning Society Papers. 1881, &c.

Six Months in Italy. By G. S. Hillard.

Recollections of a Literary Life.

1859.

1853.

By M. R. Mitford.

Benjamin Robert Haydon. Correspondence. 1876.
Notes and Queries, Magazines, Newspapers, Wills, &c.