Was Jane Austen Poisoned by Arsenic? Science May Soon Find Out
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 08:30
in Earth & Climate
On April 27, 1817, Jane Austen sat down and wrote her will, leaving almost all of her assets--valued at less than 800 pounds sterling--to her sister Cassandra. In May, the sisters moved to Winchester, England, so the bedridden Jane would be near her doctor. On July 18, only a few days after dictating 24 lines of comic verse to Cassandra, Jane died. [More]
