"Browning Ross Harris Browning 'Brownie' Ross (April 26, 1924 – April 27, 1998) is often referred to as the father of long distance running in America. H. Browning Ross, nicknamed ""Brownie"" by his friends, was a lifelong resident of Woodbury in Gloucester County, New Jersey, USA from his birth up until his death (nearly 74 years later to the day). He devoted his life to spreading his love and enthusiasm for long distance running and is often credited as the cornerstone to the development of long distance runners in the States today. Ross did not grow up possessing a love"
"the Modern World, 1815–1910"" was published the following year. He also wrote poetry, including (in Latin) an ""Ode to the Penis"" which, he informed his friend Lord Latymer was ""superficially rather smutty, but intrinsically very religious and spiritual"". The First World War began in August 1914, while Browning was in Italy. His offer to return to England as a stand-in teacher for those called to military service was ignored, and he decided to remain in Rome. Here he enjoyed an agreeable life in the English colony, listening to music, serving on various committees and acting as President of the British"
"In these years Browning was fascinated by, and learned from, the art and atmosphere of Italy. He would, in later life, describe Italy as his university. As Elizabeth had inherited money of her own, the couple were reasonably comfortable in Italy, and their relationship together was happy. However, the literary assault on Browning's work did not let up and he was critically dismissed further, by patrician writers such as Charles Kingsley, for the desertion of England for foreign lands. Browning identified as a Liberal, supported the emancipation of women, and opposed slavery, expressing sympathy for the North in the American"
"sympathy with the Italian cause after the outbreak of fighting in 1859"". They caused a furore in England, and the conservative magazines ""Blackwood's"" and the ""Saturday Review"" labelled her a fanatic. She dedicated this book to her husband. Her last work was ""A Musical Instrument"", published posthumously. Barrett Browning's sister Henrietta died in November 1860. The couple spent the winter of 1860–61 in Rome where Barrett Browning's health further deteriorated and they returned to Florence in early June 1861. She became gradually weaker, using morphine to ease her pain. She died on 29 June 1861 in her husband<nowiki>'s arms. Browning"
"matter, they ratified Hornby's decision. An appeal by Browning to public opinion led to a spate of supportive letters and editorials in the leading newspapers, but to no avail. At the end of 1875 Browning closed his house and left Eton, his final request for a measure of financial compensation being rejected. Browning spent the first months of 1876 with his family, and that summer travelled with them to Leipzig, taking along four of his former Eton pupils. He found time in August to visit Bayreuth, where he attended the first full performance of Wagner's ""Ring"" Cycle. Meanwhile, a petition"
"Airborne Division and I Airborne Corps. He led the latter during Operation Market Garden, travelling by glider to participate in the assault. In December 1944 he became Chief of Staff of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's South East Asia Command. From September 1946 to January 1948, he was Military Secretary of the War Office. In January 1948, Browning became Comptroller and Treasurer to Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh. After she ascended to the throne to become Queen Elizabeth II in 1952, he became treasurer in the Office of the Duke of Edinburgh. He suffered a severe nervous breakdown"
"""Balaustion's Adventure"" and ""Red Cotton Night-Cap Country"" were the best-received, the volume ""Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper"" included an attack against Browning's critics, especially Alfred Austin, who was later to become Poet Laureate. According to some reports Browning became romantically involved with Louisa Caroline Stewart-Mackenzie, Lady Ashburton, but he refused her proposal of marriage, and did not remarry. In 1878, he revisited Italy for the first time in the seventeen years since Elizabeth's death, and returned there on several further occasions. In 1887, Browning produced the major work of his later years, ""Parleyings with Certain People of Importance"
"return to England, Browning revived his old plan for a long poem based on the Roman murder case almost eight years after the idea had first struck him. The first book features a narrator, possibly Browning himself, who relates the story of how he came across the Yellow Book in the market and then giving a broad outline of the plot. The next two books give the views and gossip of the Roman public, apparently divided over which side to support in the famous case, who give differing accounts of the circumstances surrounding the case and the events which took"
"when he is said to have admired Byron's poetry ""as a Christian"". Poems such as ""Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day"" seem to confirm this Christian faith, strengthened by his wife. However, many have dismissed the usefulness of these works at discovering Browning's own religious views due to the consistent use of dramatic monologue which regularly expresses hypothetical views which cannot be ascribed to the author himself. Browning believed spiritualism to be fraud, and proved one of Daniel Dunglas Home's most adamant critics. When Browning and his wife Elizabeth attended one of his séances on 23 July 1855, a spirit face materialized, which"
"and brought with him an American girl Kate Field who became Landor's protege. He was still charming, venerable, and courteous, and full of literary interests. He taught Kate Field Latin, repeated poetry and composed some last conversations. In 1861, Browning left Italy after the death of his wife. Landor afterwards seldom left the house and remained petulant and uncomfortable, occasionally visited by his sons. He was much concerned about the fate of his picture collection, little of which had any merit, and about preparations for his grave as he hoped to be buried at Widcombe near Bath. He published some"
"disagreement. In Florence, probably from early in 1853, Browning worked on the poems that eventually comprised his two-volume ""Men and Women"", for which he is now well known, although in 1855, when they were published, they made relatively little impact. In 1861, Elizabeth died in Florence. Among those whom he found consoling in that period was the novelist and poet Isa Blagden, with whom he and his wife had a voluminous correspondence. The following year Browning returned to London, taking Pen with him, who by then was 12 years old. They made their home in 17 Warwick Crescent, Maida Vale."
"orchestras were adding his works to their repertoires. His decision to leave England for America in early September 1914, after the outbreak of the First World War, damaged his reputation among his patriotically minded British friends. Grainger wrote that the reason for this abrupt departure was ""to give mother a change"" – she had been unwell for years. However, according to Bird, Grainger often explained that his reason for leaving London was that ""he wanted to emerge as Australia's first composer of worth, and to have laid himself open to the possibility of being killed would have rendered his goal"
"Later Years"" (1923). He died in Rome on 6 October 1923 after a short illness. His ashes were returned to Cambridge and placed in a vault within King's College chapel. In his biography, Anstruther stresses the complexity of Browning's character, in which intelligence, wit, and a real love of youth combined with conceit, laziness, insensitivity and trouble-making. ""The needle on the balance swings back and forth violently between good and bad"". This dual nature is reflected in the comments of Browning's obituarists: according to the ""Manchester Guardian"", ""no man [was] more difficult to characterise nor more easy to misunderstand"". The"
"and England. Brownes' companion at the Plain Dealer George Hoyt wrote ""his desk was a rickety table which had been whittled and gashed until it looked as if it had been the victim of lightning. His chair was a fit companion thereto, a wabbling, unsteady affair, sometimes with four and sometimes with three legs. But Browne saw neither the table, nor the chair, nor any person who might be near, nothing, in fact, but the funny pictures which were tumbling out of his brain. When writing, his gaunt form looked ridiculous enough. One leg hung over the arm of his"
"from 1937 to 1939. In 1942, she worked as a mapmaker for the Royal Air Force during World War II. Browning later worked as a set designer in London for the Two Cities Film Studios, which was later to become the J. Arthur Rank Film Corporation. In 1948 Browning met the English writer Geoffrey Wagner while on vacation on the island of Ischia. They quickly decided to marry in America, where Wagner had been hired to teach at the University of Rochester. In 1949 she emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York City. Browning became an American citizen"
"home in Edinburgh. She has many anecdotes of these encounters in her book, ""Poets, Patriots, and Lovers"", that give insights into their personalities. For example, she has a 'hazy memory' of Thomas Carlyle ""standing by my table stooping as he spread golden syrup on a slice of bread for me at my breakfast."" Later, in April 1884, (aged 16) she flirted innocently with the poet Robert Browning (aged 71) who came over to her at breakfast and said: She also spent a fortnight or so with the philosopher Herbert Spencer at his home in Brighton. She recalled that Spencer abhorred"
"well-paid clerk for the Bank of England, earning about £150 per year. Browning's paternal grandfather was a slave owner in Saint Kitts, West Indies, but Browning's father was an abolitionist. Browning's father had been sent to the West Indies to work on a sugar plantation, but, due to a slave revolt there, had returned to England. Browning's mother was the daughter of a German shipowner who had settled in Dundee in Scotland, and his Scottish wife. Browning had one sister, Sarianna. Browning's paternal grandmother, Margaret Tittle, who had inherited a plantation in St Kitts, was rumored (within the family) to"
"staff job before. Pownall noted that his ""only reservation is that I believe [Browning] is rather nervy and highly strung"". For his services as a corps commander, Browning was mentioned in despatches a second time, and was awarded the Legion of Merit in the degree of Commander by the United States government. Browning served in South East Asia from December 1944 until July 1946; Mountbatten soon came to regard him as indispensable. Browning had an American deputy, Major-General Horace H. Fuller, and brought staff with him from Europe to SEAC headquarters in Kandy, Ceylon. SEAC headquarters developed an adversarial relationship"
"July 1855 in Ealing with the Rymers. During the séance a ""spirit face"" materialized which Home claimed was the son of Browning who had died in infancy. Browning seized the ""materialization"" and discovered it to be the bare foot of Home. To make the deception worse, Browning had never lost a son in infancy. Browning's son Robert in a letter to the ""London Times"", December 5, 1902 referred to the incident: ""Home was detected in a vulgar fraud."" The Browning allegation of fraud was supported by the magician Harry Houdini. However, Andrew Lang disputed the allegation, stating there was contradictory"
"July 1932, and honeymooned on ""Ygdrasil"". Their marriage produced three children: two daughters, Tessa and Flavia, and a son, Christian, known as Kits. Browning was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 1 February 1936, and was appointed commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. The battalion was deployed to Egypt in 1936 and returned in December 1937. His term as commander ended on 1 August 1939; he was removed from the Grenadier Guards' regimental list but remained on full pay. On 1 September, he was promoted to colonel, with his seniority backdated to 1 February 1939, and became Commandant of the"
"the Americans on airborne warfare made him few friends among the Americans, who felt that the British were still novices themselves. Browning was envious of the Americans' equipment, particularly the C-47 Dakota transports. On returning to the United Kingdom, he arranged for a joint exercise to be conducted with the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (2/503). In mid–September, as the 1st Airborne Division was coming close to reaching full strength, Browning was informed that Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa, would take place in November. When he found that the 2/503, was to take part, Browning"
"He graduated on 16 June 1915, and was commissioned a second lieutenant into the Grenadier Guards. Joining such an exclusive regiment, even in wartime, required a personal introduction and an interview by the regimental commander, Colonel Sir Henry Streatfield. Initially, Browning joined the 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards, which was training at Bovington Camp. When it departed for the Western Front in August 1915, he was transferred to the 5th (Reserve) Battalion. In October 1915 he left to join the 2nd Battalion at the front. The battalion formed part of the 1st Guards Brigade of the Guards Division. Around this time"
"he had the vision to see what was needed. He stayed in America for about six weeks on his way to Europe and did his best to make Australia better known. In England he was received as an honoured guest, and while everywhere he insisted on the desirability of preserving the ties between England and her colonies, he asked always that they should be allowed to work out their own salvation; ""the softer the cords"" he said ""the stronger will be the union between us"". Among the friends he made in England was Tennyson, and Lord Leigh, being aware that"
"assembled just weeks before lacked training and experience. In his pack, Browning carried three teddy bears and a framed print of Albrecht Dürer's ""The Praying Hands"". James Gavin, who in mid-August 1944 succeeded Ridgway in command of the 82nd Airborne Division, who in turn received promotion to command U.S. XVIII Airborne Corps, was highly critical of Browning, writing in his diary on 6 September 1944 that he ""...unquestionably lacks the standing, influence and judgement that comes from a proper troop experience... his staff was superficial... Why the British units fumble along... becomes more and more apparent. Their tops lack the"
"revive their marriage, but it was short-lived. Browning sold Ca' Rezzonico in 1906 and thereafter divided his time between two other homes in Italy, the Torre all' Antella, near Florence, and Asolo, a location closely associated with his father, who set his poem ""Pippa Passes"" there and wrote his last book, ""Asolando"" while living there. Browning grew old contentedly, despite failing eyesight. In May 1912, a street in Asolo was named ""Via Browning"" in honour of his father's centenary, and Browning, who was unwell, left his bed to attend the celebration. It was his last public appearance. On 8 July"
"out to provide a mythic foundation to the idea of empire. The Brownings spent much of their time out of England and explored European models and matter in much of their poetry. Robert Browning's great innovation was the dramatic monologue, which he used to its full extent in his long novel in verse, ""The Ring and the Book"". Elizabeth Barrett Browning is perhaps best remembered for ""Sonnets from the Portuguese"" but her long poem ""Aurora Leigh"" is one of the classics of 19th century feminist literature. Matthew Arnold was much influenced by Wordsworth, though his poem ""Dover Beach"" is often"
"to Sergeant C. K. and Dollie Browning. His father left shortly after his birth to serve in Europe during World War II where he was a navigator/bombadier on a B-17B, shot down and spent 19 months as a POW in Stalag XVII-B, located near Krems, Austria. Since he remained in the Air Force after its formation in 1947, the family traveled around a great deal but ended up in Orlando, Florida in 1955 where they, with Browning's three younger sisters, lived. While attending Edgewater High School, he personally crowned his wife-to-be, Ann Pharr, as Homecoming Queen. He graduated from Edgewater"
"they had to flee Italy and decided to move to the United States. En route, they returned to Paris, where she finally met Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Fuller used her experience in Italy to begin a book about the history of the Roman Republic—a work she may have begun as early as 1847— and hoped to find an American publisher after a British one rejected it. She believed the work would be her most important, referring to it in a March 1849 letter to her brother Richard as, ""something good which may survive my troubled existence."" In the beginning of 1850,"
"the information private. Brown is known for speaking out against slavery and expressing his feelings about the state of America. In his ""Narrative"", he offers a cure for slavery, suggesting that slaves should be given the vote, a new president should be elected, and the North should speak out against the ""spoiled child"" of the South. After passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, which required cooperation from law enforcement officials to capture refugee slaves even in free states, Brown moved to England for safety, as he had become a known public figure. He toured Britain with his antislavery"
"died in infancy. Browning seized the ""materialization"" and discovered it to be the bare foot of Home. To make the deception worse, Browning had never lost a son in infancy. Browning's son Robert in a letter to ""The Times"", December 5, 1902 referred to the incident ""Home was detected in a vulgar fraud."" The British materialization medium Rosina Mary Showers was caught in many fraudulent séances throughout her career. In 1874 during a séance with Edward William Cox a sitter looked into the cabinet and seized the spirit, the headdress fell off and was revealed to be Showers. On March"
"peace negotiations with France in 1797 when he was the undersecretary of state for foreign affairs. The coup d'état caused these negotiations to end abruptly on September 4, 1797. This led Canning to revert his attention towards his home, England, where he decided to write a letter to George Ellis on October 19, 1797. This letter contained Canning's proposal to write a periodical that was to include humour, good principles, and frank reasoning that would influence the public to side with the anti-Jacobins. With the help of fellow Tory Parliament members John Hookham Frere (Canning’s school friend) and George Ellis,"
"to January 1948. In January 1948, Browning became Comptroller and Treasurer to Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth Duchess of Edinburgh, although he did not officially retire from the Army until 5 April 1948. This appointment was made on the recommendation of Lord Mountbatten, whose nephew Philip Mountbatten was now the Duke of Edinburgh. As such, Browning became the head of the Princess' personal staff. He also juggled other duties. In 1948 he was involved with the 1948 Summer Olympics as Deputy Chairman of the British Olympic Association, and commandant of the British team. From 1944 to 1962 he was"
"Colleen Browning Colleen Browning (May 16, 1918 – August 22, 2003, New York, NY) was an Anglo-American realist and magical realist painter. Colleen Browning was born 16 May 1918 in Shoeburyness, England. As a child, Browning was a gifted artist. Her parents enrolled her in the Farnham School of Arts in 1933. In 1934 she exhibited at the Women in Arts Society in London. In 1935 she attended the Salisbury School of Arts and Craft. In that year she also exhibited her drawings and paintings at the Whitechapel Gallery. Browning attended London's Slade School of Art on a full scholarship"