Atlas plate · England and Rome, 1819 to 1821
Two Luxuries
He goes to Rome to die. She remains in Hampstead.
From one shore toward the other. A path of relation, not a lineage.
From
Hampstead
Between
consumption, money, a medical sentence
Toward
Rome
- From
- Wentworth Place, Hampstead
- Toward
- Rome, where he is buried
- Between
- the Channel, France, the Alps, the last climate he was sent to seek
- Distance
- about 1,430 km from the house they shared to the grave she could not follow
- Obstacle
- consumption, money, a medical sentence
- Beloved
- Fanny Brawne
- Time apart
- his last months
- Message delay
- letters that arrive more slowly than a body fails
- What stands between them
- illness, and a path of relation that is not a shared journey