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Childbed Fever: More 18th-Century Medical Moonshine

by Diane Morris | Jun 23, 2016 | Childbirth, Medicine

Earlier this month I took a detour and posted a blog about Whit Stillman’s movie Love and Friendship, which is based on Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan. With this blog I am returning to the ever-fascinating topic of Regency medicine and specifically to a...

Did Jane Austen Die from Nervous Consumption on July 18, 1817?

by Diane Morris | Jul 17, 2014 | Jane Austen, Medicine

July 18. At Winchester, Miss Jane Austen, youngest daughter of Rev. George Austen, Rector of Steventon, Hants, authoress of “Emma,” “Mansfield Park,” “Pride and Prejudice,” and “Sense and Sensibility.” These paltry words announced Jane Austen’s death in the...

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Characters on the Steyne, 1825. Source: Wikimedia Commons (Robt. Cruikshank, caricaturist and illustrator, public domain).