Armstrong Browning Library & Museum

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Armstrong Browning Library & Museum


Location	8th Street and Speight Avenue Waco, Texas, United States
Type	Academic
Established	1918 (collection), 1951 (building)
Branch of	Baylor University
Collection
Items collected	World's largest collection of work by poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Other information
Website	www.baylor.edu/library

31°32′38″N 97°07′13″W / 31.5438578°N 97.1202214°W / 31.5438578; -97.1202214

The Armstrong Browning Library & Museum, formerly known as the Armstrong Browning Library, is located on the campus of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, United States.^[1] It is the home of the largest collections of works by English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Additionally it is thought to house the largest collection of secular stained glass in the world.

History

The original collection of Browning works were donated to Baylor in 1918 by Dr. A.J. Armstrong. After the death of the Browning's only son Robert Barrett Browning and subsequent sale of their collection, Dr. Armstrong obtained a list of the items sold and their purchasers, and attempted to acquire the memorabilia via donation or purchase.

Dr. Armstrong's collection was originally housed in the Carroll Library. The Carroll Library was heavily damaged in a 1922 fire; none of the Browning works were lost, and a special room was subsequently built to house them.

However, by 1925 the collection had outgrown the space. In 1943, Baylor President Pat Neff donated US$100,000 toward a new library. Construction on the library (which would also house the English department) began in 1948 and the finished structure (costing US$1.75 million) was dedicated in 1951. The building was significantly renovated in 1995 to house an even larger collection (by then the English department had relocated) and refurbished in 2012.

References

^ "Armstrong Browning Library and Museum". University Libraries | Baylor University. Retrieved 2022-12-27.

External links

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v t e Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poetry	"Sebastian, or, Virtue Rewarded" (c. 1815, unpublished) The Battle of Marathon: A Poem (1820) "Sabbath Morning at Sea" (1839) "A Child Asleep" (1840) Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) Aurora Leigh (1856)
Family life	Robert Browning (husband) Robert Barrett Browning (son) Casa Guidi
Related	Armstrong Browning Library, collections and papers Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1853 sculpture) The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1934 film 1957 film Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography (1988) Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2021)

v t e Robert Browning
Plays	Strafford (1837) Pippa Passes (1841) King Victor and King Charles (1842) The Return of the Druses (1843) A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (1843) Colombe's Birthday (1844) Luria (1846) A Soul's Tragedy (1846) In a Balcony (1855)
Poetry collections and poems	Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (1833) Paracelsus (1835) "Porphyria's Lover" (1836) "Johannes Agricola in Meditation" (1836) Sordello (1840) Dramatic Lyrics (1842, "My Last Duchess", "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister", "Count Gismond") Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845, "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad", "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix", "Meeting at Night", "The Laboratory", "The Lost Leader") Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day (1850) Men and Women (1855, "Love Among the Ruins", "Evelyn Hope", "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", "Andrea del Sarto", "Fra Lippo Lippi", "A Toccata of Galuppi's") Dramatis Personæ (1864, "Rabbi ben Ezra", "Caliban upon Setebos") The Ring and the Book (1868–9) Balaustion's Adventure (1871) Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society (1871) Fifine at the Fair (1872) Red Cotton Night-Cap Country (1873) Aristophanes' Apology (1875) The Inn Album (1875) Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper (1876) The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1877) La Saisiaz and The Two Poets of Croisic (1878) Dramatic Idyls (1879, 1880) Jocoseria (1883) Ferishtah's Fancies (1884) Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (1887) Asolando (1889)
Related	Browning Society Armstrong Browning Library, collections and papers Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1853 sculpture) The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1934 film 1957 film Pied Piper of Hamelin
Family life	Elizabeth Barrett Browning (wife) Robert Barrett Browning (son) Casa Guidi

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