Fanny Brawne : a biography.
Publication details: [New York] : Vanguard Press, [1952]Description: ix, 190 pages : portraits, facsimiles, genealogical table ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 920.7
- PR4836 .R5
- HL 3305
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PR 4836 .B3 John Keats / | PR 4836 .B72 1929a The life of John Keats, | PR 4836 .K4x 1911 The poems of John Keats. | PR 4836 .R5 1952 Fanny Brawne : a biography. | PR 4836 .R53 1961 Keats, Shelley & Rome; an illustrated miscellany. | PR 4836 .R55 More letters and poems of the Keats circle. | PR 4836 .S7 Twentieth century interpretations of Keats's Odes : a collection of critical essays / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-182).
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.
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