http://blogs.haverford.edu/special/2009/09/12/haverford-keats-letter-featured-in-new-jane-campion-film/ Just another News.haverford.edu weblog Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.haverford.edu/special/2009/09/12/haverford-keats-letter-featured-in-new-jane-campion-film/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Quaker & Special Collections » Blog Archive » Shall I give you Miss Brawne? Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:04:21 +0000 http://blogs.haverford.edu/blogs/special/?p=560#comment-51 [...] Our letter from John Keats to Fanny Brawne which makes an appearance in the form of dialogue in the Jane Campion movie Bright Star came to Haverford with the autograph collection of Charles Roberts, Haverford class of 1864. Roberts began his collection of autograph letters while a student at Haverford and went on to amass one of the premiere collections in the United States.  After his death in 1902, his widow Lucy Branson Roberts gave the collection to the College, along with the funds to build an assembly hall which would long house the collection. [...]

]]> http://blogs.haverford.edu/special/2009/09/12/haverford-keats-letter-featured-in-new-jane-campion-film/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Quaker & Special Collections » Blog Archive » On the sale by auction of Keats’ love-letters Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:11:06 +0000 http://blogs.haverford.edu/blogs/special/?p=560#comment-48 [...] As mentioned last week, text from a letter in Special Collections is featured in the new film, Bright Star. Jane Campion’s period piece tells the story of the tragic love between sickly poet John Keats and fashionable girl-next-door Fanny Brawne. [...]

]]>