Life and Letters of Robert Browning - Robert Browning - Książki - INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED - 9798687931076 - 28 stycznia 2021
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Life and Letters of Robert Browning

Robert Browning

Life and Letters of Robert Browning

Book Excerpt: ...circumstance which may help to account for his not having seen much of his grandchildren, the poet and his sister; we are indeed told that he particularly dreaded the lively boy's vicinity to his afflicted foot. He married, in 1778, Margaret, daughter of a Mr. Tittle by his marriage with Miss Seymour; and who was born in the West Indies and had inherited property there. They had three children: Robert, the poet's father; a daughter, who lived an uneventful life and plays no part in the family history; and another son who died an infant. The Creole mother died also when her eldest boy was only seven years old, and passed out of his memory in all but an indistinct impression of having seen her lying in her coffin. Five years later the widower married a Miss Smith, who gave him a large family. This second marriage of Mr. Browning's was a critical event in the life of his eldest son; it gave him, to all appearance, two step-parents instead of one. There could have been little sympathy between his father an...

Media Książki     Paperback Book   (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem)
Wydane 28 stycznia 2021
ISBN13 9798687931076
Wydawcy INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED
Strony 282
Wymiary 152 × 229 × 15 mm   ·   381 g
Język English  

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