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Who were John Keats’s siblings?

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Keats, John — John Keats John Keats, drawing by Joseph Severn, 19th century.

The British poet John Keats had three siblings with whom he maintained close emotional ties throughout his life: his sister, Fanny, and his two brothers, George and Tom.12

Following the death of their father in 1804 and the subsequent breakup of their mother’s second marriage, the children lived with their widowed grandmother in Edmonton, Middlesex. As adults, the siblings’ paths diverged: George eventually emigrated to America, while Tom suffered from tuberculosis, an illness that the poet nursed him through until Tom's death in the autumn of 1818.123