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Keats House (Keats & Fanny Brawne)
The Hampstead villa where Keats fell desperately for the girl next door — literally next door, the two households sharing the house — and wrote 'Bright Star' for her. Engaged but too poor and too ill to marry, he sailed for Rome wearing her ring and died at 25 with her letters unopened, too painful to read.
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A landmark of women's sexual liberation — though Stopes' motives were entangled with eugenics, a fact this entry states plainly rather than airbrushing.
Documented historyModern NotorietyStephen Ward's flat, Wimpole MewsLondon, Greater London · EnglandWard's Marylebone flat was the hub where aristocrats, showgirls and diplomats mingled; the shots Johnny Edgecombe fired at its door on 14 December 1962 dragged the Profumo affair into open court.
Documented historyLiterary Passion50 Wimpole Street (the Barrett–Browning elopement)London, Greater London · EnglandFrom her sickroom at 50 Wimpole Street, under a father who forbade his children to marry, Elizabeth Barrett conducted a secret courtship of 574 letters with Robert Browning — then slipped out to marry him and flee to Italy. 'How do I love thee?' was written in this house's shadow.
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