The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II, page 1 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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CHAPTER VII
1851-1852
'Casa Guidi Windows'--Venice--Milan--Paris--London--Winter in Paris--The Coup d'Etat--Louis Napoleon--Miss Mitford's 'Recollections'--George Sand--Miss Mulock--Summer in England, 1
CHAPTER VIII
1852-1855
Return to Florence--Spiritualism--Robert Lytton--Bagni di Lucca--Florence--Rome--Florence--The Crimean War--Death of Miss Mitford, 91
CHAPTER IX
1855-1859
Visit to England--Tennyson's 'Maud'--Winter in Paris--Mr. Ruskin--Last Visit to England--'Aurora Leigh'--Death of Mr. Kenyon--Return to Florence--Carnival--Death of Mr. Barrett--Bagni di Lucca--Illness of Lytton--Paris--Havre--Paris--Florence--Rome, 205
CHAPTER X
1859-1860
The Franco-Austrian War--Napoleon and Italy--Villafranca--Florence--Siena--Italian Politics and England--Landor--Florence--Rome, 305
CHAPTER XI
1860-1861
'Poems before Congress'--Napoleon and Savoy--France, Italy, and England--Florence--Death of Mrs. Surtees Cook--Garibaldi--Rome--The 'Cornhill Magazine' and Thackeray--Increasing Weakness--Death of Mrs. Browning, 363
INDEX, 455
PORTRAIT OF ROBERT BROWNING, ROME 1854, Frontispiece FACSIMILE OF LETTER TO THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON, _to face p. 262_
THE LETTERS
OF
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
CHAPTER VII
1851-1852
Since they first settled in Florence the Brownings had made no long or distant expeditions from their new home. Their summer excursions to Vallombrosa, Lucca, or Siena had been of the nature of short holidays, and had not taken them beyo