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Fanny Brawne. Frances " Fanny " Brawne Lindon (9 August 1800 – 4 December 1865) is best known as the fiancée and muse to English Romantic poet John Keats. As Fanny Brawne, she met Keats, who was her neighbour in Hampstead, at the beginning of his brief period of intense creative activity in 1818.
Feb 4, 2015 · For it was there, in the autumn of 1818, that Frances Lindon had been known as Fanny Brawne. And it was there that she met a struggling young poet named John Keats. The anonymous Mrs Lindon was, in fact, the mysterious, unnamed beloved of the now famous Keats.
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.”.
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Photo Credit: Public Domain. John Keats and Fanny Brawne had an almost modern typical romance. They met through friends, their first encounter being at the literary Dilke family’s home at Wentworth Place in November 1818. They didn’t fall in love right away. They circled each other with uncertainty a bit at first, and gave each other mixed reviews.
Keats was ill the rest of the winter. Fanny Brawne spent nearly every day with him as the gravity of his illness became apparent. When he was unable to see her, they exchanged letters, and each night Brawne sent a note to put under his pillow.
Fanny Brawne Lindon died in 1865, in relative obscurity; her relationship with Keats was fully revealed in 1878, when her children worked with bibliographer and historian Harry Buxton Forman to publish Keats’s letters to her.
The fiancée and muse of Romantic poet John Keats. Fanny Brawne and John Keats. Fanny was secretly engaged to the poet John Keats. Their intense relationship lasted from 1818 until his death from tuberculosis, aged just 25, in 1821.
