{"id":848,"date":"2011-11-14T13:13:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T18:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=848"},"modified":"2016-08-15T08:57:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T15:57:27","slug":"new-theory-about-jane-austens-death-arsenic-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/new-theory-about-jane-austens-death-arsenic-poisoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Austen&#8217;s Death &#8211; Could it have been Arsenic Poisoning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1906784264\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=litquotes-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=1906784264\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-849\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 5px 0px;\" title=\"The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DeathofJaneAustenjpg.jpg\" alt=\"The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen\" width=\"104\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jane Austen is famous for her\u00a0\u00a0works of romantic fiction like <em>Emma<\/em> as well as\u00a0<em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em>. \u00a0The beloved author was born on\u00a0December 16, 1775\u00a0and died on\u00a0July 18, 1817.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years many people have wondered the cause of <a title=\"Jane Austen Quotes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Jane%20Austen\">Jane Austen<\/a>&#8216;s death at the age of 41.\u00a0 Was it Addison&#8217;s disease?\u00a0 Maybe Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma?\u00a0 Now Lindsay Ashford, a British crime novelist and journalist, puts forth a new theory in her book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1906784264\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=litquotes-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=1906784264\" target=\"_blank\">The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen<\/a>.\u00a0 Ashford speculates that Jane Austen died of arsenic poisoning. Evidently arsenic was a common ingredient in medicine during the time of Jane Austen.\u00a0 Talk about the cure being worse than the disease!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Austen is famous for her  works of romantic fiction like Emma as well as Pride and Prejudice.  The beloved author was born on December 16, 1775 and died on July 18, 1817.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biographies","tag-jane-austen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}