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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.

I recently toured the New York City Second Avenue Subway construction site with Monica Bradley, Scientific American 's photo editor, and photographers Jeremy Floto and Cassandra Warner. [More]