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12.02.2009

What really killed Jane Austen?

This work by British painter Ozias Humphry is the only known oil painting of Jane Austen, believed to be aged about 14.
This work by British painter Ozias Humphry is the only known oil painting of Jane Austen, believed to be aged about 14.

By Richard Allen Greene

London, England (CNN) -- It is a truth universally acknowledged -- or nearly so -- that Jane Austen, the author of "Pride and Prejudice," died of a rare illness called Addison's disease, which robs the body of the ability to make critical hormones.

Katherine White doesn't believe it.


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