hile The Armstrong Library has the world's largest collection of material on Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (over 3,400 original documents; plus an additional 8,000 letters of British and American figures and 27,000 books), it also has a growing collection of nineteenth-century women poets, over 1400 nineteenth-century British sermons and religious pamphlets, significant research materials in many areas of Victorian culture, and research holdings of Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George MacDonald, Joseph Milsand, J. H. and F. W. Newman, John Ruskin, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and other Victorian writers. The Milsand Archive contains over 50,000 items, mostly in French, relating to Browning, the Milsand family, and the Anglo-French literary scene from the 1860s to 80s. Additional information about the Library's collections is also available online.
The Armstrong Browning Library is currently accepting applications for research fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year. Applications are due April 1.
More information can be found here.
Created 27 March 2025