Haverford Keats letter featured in new Jane Campion film
Saturday, September 12th, 2009Bright Star, a movie by New Zealand film maker Jane Campion, tells the story of the secret love affair between English poet John Keats and the fashionable girl next door, Fanny Brawne. The film makes use of several love letters between John and Fanny, including one from the Charles Roberts Autograph Letter Collection in Haverford College Special Collections. The movie premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May and was shown at Haverford alumnus Harlan Jacobson’s Talk Cinema in Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr this past weekend. It is scheduled to open commercially on September 18. Subsequent posts on this blog will reveal more about the Haverford Keats letter.
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