Browning Day
Every spring, the Armstrong Browning Library & Museum proudly celebrates Browning Day. Originally situated on Robert Browning's birthday (May 7), the celebration has shifted to commemorate the birthdays of both Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6) and Robert Browning. Browning Day programs range from musical performances to poetry readings to academic presentations—all to honor the literary legacy of the namesakes of the library.
Browning Day is made possible with support from the Guardian Angels organization of the Armstrong Browning Library & Museum.
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For more information, contact the Armstrong Browning Library & Museum
at (254) 710-4968 or abl_office@baylor.edu.
Past Browning Day Presentations
"The year’s at the spring: A Celebration of Songs set to the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning"
Dr. Jamie Van Eyck, Associate Professor of Voice and Charles W. Evans Chair in Voice, Baylor University, along with students from the Baylor School of Music
Thursday, April 23, 2026
"The Poetry of Real Life: Robert Browning’s Red Cotton Night-Cap Country"
Dr. Joseph Phelan, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Friday, April 11, 2025
"How Much Bacon is in this Vegan Sandwich? The Role of Invention in Historical Fiction"
Laura McNeal, Author
Friday, April 12, 2024
"Translated into Song: Robert Browning and a Picture at Fano"
Kevin A. Morrison, Professor of British Literature, Henan University
Thursday, April 27, 2023
A Browning Music Concert: A Melody of Music & Manuscripts
presented by the Baylor Chamber Singers
Monday, April 25, 2022
"Lords of the Earth? Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Christ's Body in the Age of Human Domination"
Dr. Joshua King, Associate Professor of English and Margarett Root Brown Chair in Robert Browning and Victorian Studies
Friday, April 16, 2021
"Celebrating Elizabeth Barrett Browning Through Cinematic Virtual Reality"
Amanda Gardner, Ph.D. candidate in Education, Baylor University
Friday, April 12, 2019
"Such Very Fierce Radicals: The Brownings and Working-Class Culture"
Kirstie Blair, Head of School for the School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Friday, April 20, 2018
"The Brownings and the Art of Praise"
Dr. Andrew Tate, Reader in Literature, Religion and Aesthetics, Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University
Friday, March 31, 2017
"Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'Stung by the Splendor' of Italy"
Dr. Elizabeth D. Woodworth, Associate Professor & Director of Composition and the Masters Program in Teaching Writing, Auburn University-Montgomery
Friday, May 6, 2016
“Reforming Christ’s Body in Aurora Leigh”
Dr. Joshua King, Assistant Professor of English and Margarett Root Brown Chair in Robert Browning and Victorian Studies
with "Mysterion," a new composition for String Quartet by Carlos Colón, ABL Artist-in-Residence
Thursday, May 7, 2015
The Browning Letters Project
featuring Darryl Stuhr, Assistant Director, Digital Projects Group, Baylor University; Ian Graham, Director, Library Collections, Wellesley College; Anna Sander, College Archivist & Curator of Manuscripts, Balliol College; Fiona Godber, Assistant Librarian, Balliol College; and Eric Ames, Curator of Digital Collections, Electronic Library, Baylor University
with music presented by Chris Martin
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
“Browning and the Traumatic Monologue”
Dr. Cornelia Pearsall, Professor of English Language and Literature from Smith College
with music by Carlos Colón
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
"The Personal, the Political, and the Poetical: Four Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning"
Dr. Sandra Donaldson, Professor of English, University of North Dakota, and General Editor, The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
with music by Carlos Colón and an instrumental composition by Blake Clark
Monday, May 7, 2012
“Unsettled Scores: Structure and Play in Robert Browning’s Music Poems”
Dr. Herbert F. Tucker, Professor of Nineteenth-Century British Literature, University of Virginia
with music by organized by Carlos Colón featuring Kimberly Lynn Fuselier, Jeremy Wood, and Braeden Ayres
Friday, May 6, 2011
"Southern Harmony: New settings of Sacred Tunes drawn from the Nineteenth-Century Hymnal"
with Mia Orosco, The Heritage Square Quartet, The Acorn Ensemble, and Singers from Parkview Christian Academy
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Browning Festival: "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
A new composition by Carlos Colón-Quintana
performed by The Waco Children's Choir, Julie Bolin, Director
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Browning Festival: "'Boundless Life:' A.J. Armstrong as Impresario"
Dr. Scott Lewis, Editor, The Brownings' Correspondence
with music by the China Spring High School Choir
Friday, May 7, 2010
Browning Festival: Music by Richard Smith
along with Julie Adams and a string ensemble
Saturday, May 8, 2010
"Robert Browning and the Actors"
Dr. Michael Meredith, Curator of the Modern Collection in the Eton College Library, England
with choral music by BASIC
Thursday, May 7, 2009
"Lament with Wings"
A Musical Evening featuring Dr. Amy Vail & Carlos Colón
Friday, May 8, 2009
"Songs of Love and Death: Music Inspired by Browning and Other Poets"
Carlos Colón-Quintana
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Opening of the Vander Poel Collection
Dr. Stephen Prickett, Director of the Armstrong Browning Library and holder of the Margarett Root Brown Chair in Robert Browning and Victorian Studies
Friday, May 7, 2004