jan 1, 1819 - Keats contracts tuberculosis

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​1820 Keats begins to show the first signs of tuberculosis after travelling on the outside of a coach to save money. For the next two months, Keats lives as an invalid at Wentworth Place. He communicates with Fanny by letter even though she is still next door. During the summer Keats leaves Wentworth Place and lodges for a time with Leigh Hunt’s family in Kentish Town. In July his final volume of verse, 'Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems' is published. In August he moves back to Wentworth Place to be nursed by Fanny Brawne. Keats is advised to spend the winter in a warmer climate and money is raised for him to go to Italy with his friend Joseph Severn.

1820 September Fanny prepares Keats’s clothes for the voyage and sews a silk lining into his travelling cap. On 13 September he sets off for Gravesend. Four days later Keats and Severn board the sailing brig Maria Crowther. Keats writes his final version of his 'Bright Star' sonnet aboard the ship.

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