The Book Trunk

Robert Browning

  • Happy Birthday To Me – and Browning!

    Robert Browning as a young man. Today is my birthday, an anniversary I share with poet Robert Browning, who is 200 today, but seems to have been forgotten in all the brouhaha surrounding Charles Dickens (by the way, Edward Lear,… Continue reading

  • April in Ledbury with Browning

    I have been staying with my mother for a week, in Ledbury, which seems to be something of a black hole as far as the Internet is concerned – a lot of the time it seems impossible to get online… Continue reading