Posted by admin on Nov 17, 2011
Jane Austen, the author of classics such as “Pride and Prejudice” and “Sense and Sensibility,” may have died of arsenic poisoning, according to a crime writer who has reviewed the last letters of the British novelist.
The crucial clue lies in a line written by Austen a few months before her mysterious death in 1817. Describing weeks of illness she had recently experienced, Austen wrote: “I am considerably better now and recovering my looks a little, which have been bad enough, black and white and every wrong colour.”
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