Keats’s passion for Fanny Brawne is expressed in some of his most beautiful letters, but to what extent was their relationship constrained by the courtship conventions of their era? What did it mean for a couple to become ‘engaged’? What future could they have hoped for together? And how unusual, or even risky, was their correspondence? Join social historian Amanda Vickery in conversation with literary historian John Mullan to explore one of literature’s most famous love stories in the context of its times.
Amanda Vickery is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London, and a prize-winning writer and broadcaster. Her books include Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (2010) and The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England (1998), and she has written and presented numerous documentaries for BBC TV and radio.
John Mullan is Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London.