Aquarius wrote:I have also read somewhere that Keats may have destroyed her letters to him before Italy to protect her reputation. I don't know if I believe that, because I think having her letters to him most likely would have resulted in the opposite effect. Sometimes his letters to her made her out to be inconstant, when really he was just being paranoid and jealous. Her letters to him would have cleared up her reputation, I think, like how her letters to Fanny Keats redeemed her in British society.
I love those photos, Malia! Especially the image of them listening in on each other on opposite sides of their wall.
Maybe her letters wrote of her passion for him and they would have been seen as quite unseemly.