Was Jane Austen Poisoned by Arsenic? Science May Soon Find Out

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.

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Was Jane Austen Poisoned by Arsenic? Science May Soon Find Out