LETTEWRS OF FANNY BRAWNE TO FANNY KEATS 1820-1824 Edited with a Biographical Introduction by FRED EDGCUMBE Resident curator of the Keats Memorial House, Hampstead with a preface by Maurice buxtron Forman, 1937.
Description: Red cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Illustrated frontis and 3 others in text. Light brown paper dustjacket with brown lettering. Covered in mylar.
Condition: Near fine. Light moisture stain on bottom of cover. Pages are age toned. Dust jacket is sun toned on spine and edges. (see photos)
Pages: 103
Size: 5.75" x 8.5"
Weight: 14 ozs
Frances "Fanny" Brawne Lindon (1800-1865) 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. Wikipedia
Before he parted from Fanny Brawne and left Wentworth Place, Keats asked her to write to his sister, Fanny Keats. They began a correspondence of 31 letters over a four-year period.
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This book is from the estate of John Robert Gregg Jr. Born April 25, 1935 in Manhattan, N.Y. to John Robert Gregg, inventor of Gregg shorthand, and Janet Kinley Gregg, daughter of economist David Kinley, he worked briefly as an editor for the Sierra Club in San Francisco before moving to York, Maine in 1967, where he lived the rest of his life winter, spring and fall. He died in York in 2019. Summers he spent at his beloved cottage on the French River, Ontario.
His extensive collected library was supplemented by inherited collections from a number of allied families who lived in both Chicago and Manhattan. Subjects include Canadian and Arctic exploration, Inuits, American Revolutionary War; Novels and poetry by William Shakespeare, Keats and Shelley, Marlowe, Bierce, Douglas, as well as plays etc.
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