. Old love stories retold. Old Love Stories RetoldSidney Colvin thus convincingly puts intowords: A brisk and blooming, veryyoung beauty, of the far from uncommonEnglish-hawk blonde type, with aquilinenose and retreating forehead, sharp-cutnostril and gray-blue eye, a slight, shapelyfigure rather short than tall, a takingsmile and good hair, carriage and com-plexion. It is rather a pity that Miss Brawnesletters have not been preserved, thoughit would not be difficult, I think, toimagine them. It is not necessary tobe Keats to have received such colourlessyoung-lady-like scrawls — which, poorfe


. Old love stories retold. Old Love Stories RetoldSidney Colvin thus convincingly puts intowords: A brisk and blooming, veryyoung beauty, of the far from uncommonEnglish-hawk blonde type, with aquilinenose and retreating forehead, sharp-cutnostril and gray-blue eye, a slight, shapelyfigure rather short than tall, a takingsmile and good hair, carriage and com-plexion. It is rather a pity that Miss Brawnesletters have not been preserved, thoughit would not be difficult, I think, toimagine them. It is not necessary tobe Keats to have received such colourlessyoung-lady-like scrawls — which, poorfellow, he, doubtless, kissed and treas-ured, even as you and I. Yet, it mustnot be thought that Miss Brawne waswithout character or parts. On thecontrary, she seems, from Mr. BuxtonFormans naive description, to have beensomething like a virago of the accom-plishments. She had the gift of in-dependence or self-suffieingness in a high *fohn Keats and Fanny Brawnedegree, says the good Mr. Forman, and it was not easy to turn


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