Browning Sunday 2025
Annual commemoration of the marriage of poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning on the 12th of September, 1846.

Date: Saturday, 14th September 2025
Location: St Marylebone Parish Church

Event Schedule:

11:00 AM – Presentation during the service

12:00 PM – Two-Course Lunch with Wine (£25)
– Enjoy a delightful lunch with a glass of wine. Please purchase your ticket in advance by calling the Parish Office.

2:00 PM – Free Lecture 
– Porphyria’s Lover and a Broadsheet Execution Ballot by Dr Britta Martens, University of West of England

3:00 PM Afternoon Tea & Cake

Dr. Britta Martens has been working at the University of the West of England (UWE) since 2002, teaching across the English Literature syllabus. Her research focuses on Victorian literature, with a particular interest in Robert Browning. Her doctoral thesis examined Browning’s poems in propria persona. She has continued to explore his work in subsequent publications, including her books Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy: Challenging the Personal Voice (2011) and The Poetry of Robert Browning (2016), as well as a special issue of Victorian Poetry (Winter 2012), which she co-edited with Mary Ellis Gibson.

She is currently working on a critical edition of Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau and Fifine at the Fair for The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, to be published by Oxford University Press.

You can listen a reading of Porphyria’s Lover below