Popular Culture
Charles Brown featured (in a small way) in the 2009 film Bright Star, written and directed by Jane Campion which focuses on the final few years of the life of John Keats and his relationship with Fanny Brawne and Charles's father Charles Armitage Brown. In the film, Charles Armitage Brown (played by actor Paul Schneider) is presented as close to "a villain, a cynical boor who knocks up his housemaid (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) and banishes Fanny so the boys can work on their plays and poems". The pregnant housemaid in the movie was called "Abigail" and so was presumably intended to represent Abigail O'Donohue, Charles Brown's mother. In one scene, Abigail shows off her baby to the Brawne family; this baby must therefore be Charles Brown (the baby did not appear in the film credits, presumably as it was not a speaking role).
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