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When the kissing had to stop John Gross praises this account of Robert Browning in the decades after his wife's death

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040606
Author:John Gross

Robert Browning:

A Life After Death

by Pamela Neville-Sington

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 20, 340 pp

pounds 18 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222

ROBERT BROWNING married Elizabeth Barrett in 1846 - secretly, to avoid the wrath of Elizabeth's tyrannical father. They left almost at once for Italy, where they lived for the next 15 years. They had a son, nicknamed "Pen", on whom they doted; in other respects, too, their marriage was exceptionally happy. Then, in 1861, Elizabeth died.

It is at this point that Pamela Neville-Sington opens her new account of Browning, and it still leaves a great ...

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