Before her marriage she became a member of the Independent congregation, meeting for worship at York Street, Lock's Fields, Walworth, where now stands the Robert Browning Hall.

Her husband attached himself to the same congregation; both were teachers in the Sunday School.

Mrs Browning kept, until within a few years of her death, a missionary box for contributions to the London Missionary Society.
The conditions of membership implied the acceptance of "those views of doctrinal truth which for the sake of distinction are called Calvinistic." Thus over the poet's childhood and youth a religious influence presided; it was not sacerdotal, nor was it ascetic; the boy was in those early days, as he himself declared, "passionately religious." Their excellent pastor was an entirely "unimaginative preacher of the Georgian era," who held fast by the approved method of "three heads and a conclusion." Browning's indifference to the ministrations of Mr Clayton was not concealed, and on one occasion he received a rebuke in the presence of the congregation.

Yet the spirit of religion which surrounded and penetrated him was to remain with him, under all its modifications, to the end.

"His face," wrote the Rev.
Edward White, "is vividly present to my memory through the sixty years that have intervened.