an June 1825.
She died in 1865.

The sincerity or otherwise of Leigh Hunt as a personal, and more
especially a literary, friend of Keats, has been a good deal canvassed
of late. It has been said that he showed little staunchness in
championing the cause of Keats at the time--towards the close of
1818--when detraction was most rampant, and when support from a man
occupying the position of editor of _The Examiner_ would have been most
serviceable. But one must not hurry to assume that Hunt was seriously in
the wrong, whether we regard the question as one of individual
friendship or of literary policy. The attacks upon Keats were in great
measure flank-attacks upon Hunt himself. Keats was abused on the ground
that he wrote bad poetry through imitating Hunt's bad poetry--that he
out-Heroded Herod, or out-Hunted Hunt. Obviously it was a delicate task
which would have lain before the elder poet: for any direct defence of
Keats must have been conducted on the thesis either that the faults were
not there (when indeed they _were_ there to a large extent); or else
that the faults were in fact beauties, an allegation which would only
have riveted the charge that they were Leigh-Huntish mannerisms; or
finally that they were not due to Hunt's influence or example, but were
proper to Keats in person, and this would have been more in the nature
of censure than of vindication. A defence on general grounds, upholding
the poems without any discussion of the particular faults alleged, would
also, as coming from Hunt, have been a difficult thing to manage: it
would rather have inflamed than abated the rancour of the enemy.
Besides, we must remember that Keats's first volume, though very warmly
accepted and praised by Hunt, was really but beginner's work, imperfect
in the last degree; while the second volume, "Endymion," was viewed by
Hunt as a hazardous and immature attempt notwithstanding its many
beauties, and incapable of being upheld beyond a certain limit. There
was not at that date any third volume to be put forward in proof of
faculty, or in arrest of judgment. Mr. Forman, than whom no man looks
with more patience into the evidence on a question such as this of
Hunt's friendship, or is more likely to pronounce a sound judgment upon
it, wholly scouts the accusation; and I am quite content to range myself
on the same side as Mr. Forman.

Of Keats's friends in general it may be said that the one whom he
respected very highly in point