List of works by Oscar Browning

This is a list of the published works of Oscar Browning, teacher, historian and educationalist, whose active life extended from the mid-Victorian period to the 1920s. The list is incomplete. As well as authoring numerous books, Browning edited and wrote prefaces to other works, and was a copious contributor of articles and reviews which appeared in a range of journals and newspapers, a sample of which are included here. The main source is the partial bibliography included in the 1956 edition of H.E. Wortham's biography.^[1]

Browning's main works were historical, but he also wrote on educational matters and literary biography, including a well-regarded Life of George Eliot.^[2] Late in life he completed two volumes of memoirs.

Works[edit]

History[edit]

Books[edit]

The Netherlands in the sixteenth century : a lecture delivered at Eton College. London: publisher not stated. 1869. OCLC 48695147.
(Joint editor) Historical Handbooks (9 volumes). London: Rivingtons. 1873–84. OCLC 558228374.
Modern England, 1820–1874. New York: Harper & Bros. 1878. OCLC 41009108. (later updated to 1885)
Modern France, 1814–1879. London: Longmans. 1880. OCLC 457166276.
(Editor) Political Memoranda of Francis, Fifth Duke of Leeds. London: The Camden Society. 1884.
(Editor) The Despatches of Earl Gower, English Ambassador at Paris June 1790 to August 1792. London: Sutherland. 1885.
(Editor) England and Napoleon in 1803, Being the Despatches of Lord Whitworth and Others. London: Longmans, Green. 1887. OCLC 312161462.
The New Illustrated History of England (4 vols.). London: Virtue. 1888–1893. OCLC 64774674.
Modern England, 1815–1885. London: Publisher not stated. 1889. OCLC 644194415. (updated from 1878 edition)
(Editor) The Evolutionary History of England, its People and Institutions. london: pitman. 1902. OCLC 978049173.
The Life of Bartolomeo Colleoni of Anjou and Burgundy. London: The Arundel Society. 1891. OCLC 252943115.
The Flight to Varennes and other historical essays. London: Swan Sonnenschein. 1892.}
Guelphs and Ghibellines: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1250–1409. London: Methuen. 1893. OCLC 853882763.
The Citizen, His Rights and Responsibilities. London: Blackie & co. 1893.
The Age of the Condottieri: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1409–1530. London: Methuen. 1895. OCLC 4015356.
(Editor) The Journal of Sir George Rooke, Admiral of the Fleet, 1700-1702. London: Navy Records Society. 1897. OCLC 769257233.
Peter the Great. London: Hutchinson & Co. 1898. OCLC 558228539.
Charles XII of Sweden. London: Hurst & Blackett. 1899. OCLC 315341297.
(Introduction) Woodrow Wilson: The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics. London: Ibister & Co. 1900. OCLC 8771715.
The History of Europe in outline, 1814-1848, from the Restoration of the Bourbons to the Fall of the Monarchy of July. London: Macmillan. 1901. OCLC 11706765.
Wars and the Development of Military Science. London: W & R Chambers. 1903. OCLC 907949876.
The Foreign Policy of Pitt to the Outbreak of War with France. London: Publisher not stated. 1904. OCLC 558228348.
Napoleon, the First Phase: Some Chapters on the Boyhood and Youth of Bonaparte, 1769–1793. London: John Lane. 1905. OCLC 1017279594.
(Preface) Alexander Keiland: Napoleon's Men and Methods. London: A. Owen & Co. 1907.
The Fall of Napoleon. London: John Lane. 1907. OCLC 558228341. '
(Editor) Despatches from Paris, 1784-1790, selected and edited from the Foreign Office correspondence. London: The Society. 1910. OCLC 458913106.
A History of the Modern World, 1815–1910. Cassell and Co. 1912. OCLC 699084967.
A General History of the World. London: Edward Arnold. 1915.
A Short History of Italy, 375-1915. Rome: P. Maglione & C. Strini. 1917. OCLC 755059835.

Articles[edit]

Browning, Oscar (1885). "The Triple Alliance of 1788". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 2: 77–96. doi:10.2307/3677861. JSTOR 3677861. OCLC 28674447. S2CID 154485974.
Browning, Oscar (1885). "The Treaty of Commerce between England and France in 1786". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 2 (4): 349–64. doi:10.2307/3677876. JSTOR 3677876. OCLC 28675071. S2CID 153776677.
Browning, Oscar (1886). "The Flight of Louis XVI to Varennes; a criticism of Carlyle". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 3 (3): 319–41. doi:10.2307/3677850. JSTOR 3677850. OCLC 36059789. S2CID 194103773.
Browning, Oscar (1889). "Hugh Elliot in Berlin". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 4: 85–101. doi:10.2307/3678162. JSTOR 3678162. OCLC 28676686. S2CID 161537330.
Browning, Oscar (1892). "The Evolution of the Family". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 6: 87–107. doi:10.2307/3678191. JSTOR 3678191. OCLC 28678625. S2CID 178663109.
Browning, Oscar (1897). "The Conference of Pillnitz". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 11: 133–38. doi:10.2307/3678218. JSTOR 3678218. OCLC 28678612. S2CID 179001356.

Educational: books, pamphlets, articles[edit]

"On Science Teaching in Schools". Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science (17): 243–44. 22 May 1868.^[3]
Cornelius Nepos with English notes. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1868.
"The Study of Archæology in Schools". The Fortnightly Review. London: Chapman & Hall. October 1874. OCLC 27658400.
An Introduction to the History of Educational Theories. London: Kegan Paul Trench. 1881. OCLC 1006030851.
(Editor) John Milton: Milton's Tractate on Education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1883.
The Training of Universities of the Public servants of the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1884. OCLC 27274696. (booklet)
"Cambridge". English Illustrated Magazine. October 1886. OCLC 48695108.
The Teaching of History in Schools. London: Longmans Green. 1887. OCLC 48703580. (An address delivered at the Royal History Society, 22 October 1877, subsequently published together with a report of the conference on the teaching of history in schools)
(Contributor) Aspects of Education: A Study in the History of Pedagogy ed. Nicholas Murray Butler. New York: Industrial Education Association. 1888. OCLC 505737152.
The Proposed New Historical Tripos. London: Spottiswoode & Co. 1897. OCLC 48703573.
(Preface) J.F. Herbart: Letters and Lectures on Education. London: Swan Sonnenschein. 1898.
(Co-editor) Macmillan's Manuals for Teachers. London: Macmillan. 1899–1904. OCLC 558229064.
(Preface) J.F. Herbart:The Science of Education (PDF). Boston, MA: D.C. Heath & Co. 1902.

Literary works and memoirs[edit]

Life of George Eliot. London: Walter Scott. 1890. OCLC 697172.
Dante: His Life and Writings. London: Swan Sonnenschein. 1891. OCLC 2351751.
Goethe, his Life and Writings. London: Swan Sonnenschein. 1892. OCLC 977752091.
(Introduction) Robert Browning: Poems. London: G. Routledge & Sons. 1897. OCLC 557354770.
(Introduction) Robert Browning: Dramas. London: G. Routledge & Sons. 1898. OCLC 926098678.
John Keats. London: Royal Society of Literature. 1901. OCLC 48695143. Reproduced from an article in Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, volume XXII, 2nd series.
Impressions of Indian Travel. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1903. OCLC 558228422.
Memories of Sixty Years at Eton, Cambridge and Elsewhere. London: John Lane. 1910. OCLC 558228480.
Memories of Later Years. London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1923. OCLC 558228472.

References[edit]

^ Wortham, H.E. (1956). Victorian Eton and Cambridge. London: Arthur Barker Ltd. pp. 319–21.
^ Davenport-Hines, Richard (3 January 2008). "Browning, Oscar". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 13 April 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Hirsch, Pam; McBeth, Mark (2004). Teacher Training at Cambridge: the Initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes. London: Woburn Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-7130-4054-8.

[1] Wortham, H.E. (1956). Victorian Eton and Cambridge. London: Arthur Barker Ltd. pp. 319–21.

[2] Davenport-Hines, Richard (3 January 2008). "Browning, Oscar". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 13 April 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[3] Hirsch, Pam; McBeth, Mark (2004). Teacher Training at Cambridge: the Initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes. London: Woburn Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-7130-4054-8.

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