Keats's House, where he wrote some of his best loved poems, has been upgraded with a £424,000 Lottery grant. In the care of the City of London, the house has been a museum since 1925. It was saved from demolition by an international appeal, its original interiors under layers of later redecoration.
The house was built as two cunningly disguised semis: 18-year-old Fanny Brawne was the daughter of the family lodging next door. Described as "beautiful, elegant, graceful, silly, fashionable and strange" their affair is now on screen in Jane Campion's new film 'Bright Star'.
Amongst the objects on display; a lyre-shaped gold brooch, strung with the poet's hair. The lyre is a replica of Severn's design for the tombstone. Fanny's brooch is simply inscribed "Keats".
