Fanny brawne biography

Fiancee reduce speed John Keats

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Introduction

In a letter to his brother George in the autumn of 1818, John Keats wrote, “Mrs Brawne…still resides in Hampstead…her daughter senior is I think beautiful and elegant, graceful, silly, fashionable and strange we have a little tiff now and then.” The daughter who caught Keats’s attention was Fanny Brawne, Keats’s neighbor. Keats and Brawne soon fell in love, and their star-crossed relationship, thwarted by Keats’s death in 1821, inspired many of Keats’s most well-known poems, including “Bright Star,” “The Eve of St. Agnes,” and “Ode to a Nightingale.”

Displayed in this exhibition are items from the Harvard Keats Collection, including a number of Keats’s love letters to Brawne, in addition to images of places and objects associated with the couple. More information on the Harvard Keats Collection can befound on the Houghton website.

John Keats

(1795-1821)

John Keats was born in London on the October 31, 1795 to a hostler and his wife. His father died when Keats was eight, and his mother when he was fourteen. Soon after his mother’s death, Keats began an apprenticeship with a neighboring doctor, and in 1815 started formal medical training at Guy’s Hospital. Despite the security that a medical career offered, Keats was ambivalent toward it, preferring instead to

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Fanny Brawne: A Biography

During her lifetime, Fanny Brawne's identity as Keats's great love remained a secret to all but her family and a few friends. When their connection became public, she was vilified by the review establishment as cruel, shallow and unfaithful, a heartless flirt unworthy of a great poet. Keats had destroyed her love letters in the interest of concealing their relationship, and thanks to the petty god of prudery that ruled certain Victorians’ sensibilities, the burning of Keat’s correspondence left her bereft of any true champion. This is an authoritative biography, despite being the merest skeleton of the person who was Fanny Brawne. Reconstructed from Keat’s letters to Fanny, her letters to Fanny Keats, legal documents, parish records, and residential directories, along with extensive research into the places she lived, it offers a remarkably complete picture of Fanny Brawne's life.