n addition to the world's largest collection of material on Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the ABL collections also include nineteenth-century women poets, pamphlets and tracts, minor English poets, Victorian letters and manuscripts collections, Victorian photographs, a Julia Margaret Cameron collection, and children’s literature.
A few examples of the authors highlighted in the collections include: Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Michael Field, George MacDonald, Harriet Martineau, J. H. Newman, Christina Rossetti, John Ruskin, Joseph Milsand, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and many other nineteenth-century writers.
The website and finding aids can direct you to many more resources. Use this quick start guide as an aid to discover and access the Armstrong Browning Library's resources. You can also email the librarians with questions about specific authors, texts, or research questions you may have.
The Library offers one-month fellowships to visiting scholars pursuing doctoral, post-doctoral, or equivalent research. Fellows are expected to be in residence and to conduct research in the collections during the majority of the award period and are invited to produce a written summary of their experience working with the collections for the library's blog. The fellowship is primarily designed to provide access to the library for scholars who reside outside the immediate area. The stipend for recipients within the continental United States is $1,500 (pre-tax) and for those from outside the U.S., $2,000 (pre-tax). Housing is provided.
To apply, candidates should send a formal letter of application that includes the preferred dates of study, a brief research proposal (not to exceed three pages) emphasizing the relationship of the Armstrong Browning Library collections to the proposed project, and a curriculum vitae to: Jennifer Borderud, Director, Armstrong Browning Library. Applicants should also arrange to have two confidential letters of recommendation sent by email to the Director. Application documents and letters should be received by April 1, 2026. Awards will be announced for the following academic year (September through August) by April 30, 2026. Additional information available here.
Created 24 March 2026 Last modified 25 March 2026