Sense and Sensibility or Arsenic and Revenge: Was Jane Austen Poisoned?
By Clare Toohey
November 13, 2011Crime author Lindsay Ashford is publishing a book based upon her research and her conviction that Miss Jane Austen was killed at age 41 by arsenic poisoning, possibly appearing as other kinds of illness. In an article for the Daily Mail, Ashford writes: Describing weeks of illness she [Austen] had recently endured, she wrote: ‘[I]…