1812-1889
Browning was the older of the two children of Robert and Sarah Anna Wiedeman Browning. From his reasonably affluent parents Browning learned to love the arts--books, paintings, music, and theatre. His father, a clerk in the Bank of England, was an unusually well-read man who owned a personal library of 6000 books. His mother was a devoutly religious woman and an accomplished pianist.
