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In Austen's time, beer was the drink of choice, and like the rest of her family, Austen could brew her own beer.
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Her specialty was spruce beer, which was made with molasses for a slightly sweeter taste. Austen was also a fan of making mead—she once lamented to her sister, "there is no honey this year. Bad news for us. We must husband our present stock of mead, and I am sorry to perceive that our twenty gallons is very nearly out. I cannot comprehend how the fourteen gallons could last so long. Austen lived to see only four of her six novels published.
She died on July 18, at the age of 41 following complaints of symptoms that medical historians have long felt pointed to Addison's disease or Hodgkin's lymphoma. In , the British Library floated a different theory—that Austen was poisoned by arsenic in her drinking water due to a polluted supply or possibly accidental ingestion due to mismanaged medication.
The Library put forth the idea based on Austen's notoriously poor eyesight which they say may have been the result of cataracts as well as her written complaint of skin discoloration. Both can be indicative of arsenic exposure. Critics of the theory say the evidence is scant and that there is equal reason to believe a disease was the cause of her death. As Matthew Birkhold of Electric Lit points out, judges seem to have a bit of a preoccupation with the works of Austen.
Birkhold found 27 instances of a judge's written ruling invoking the name or words of the author, joining a rather exclusive club of female writers who tend to pop up in judicial decisions. Harper Lee and Mary Shelley round out the top three. According to Birkhold, jurists often use Austen as a kind of shorthand to explain matters involving relationships or class distinctions.
Half of the decisions used the opening line from Pride and Prejudice: Others invoke characters like Fitzwilliam Darcy to compare or contrast the litigant's romantic situation. In most cases, the intent is clear, with authors realizing that their readers consider Austen's name synonymous with literary—and hopefully judicial—wisdom. Photo illustration by Mental Floss.
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Charlotte Bronte circa Photo by Rischgitz, Getty Images. English writers Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Bronte circa , as painted by their brother. Painting by Patrick Branwell Bronte. The first page of the manuscript 'Jane Eyre.
Christopher Furlong, Getty Images. Subscribe to our Newsletter! Austen's dad did everything he could to help her succeed. Her works were published anonymously. She backed out of a marriage of convenience. She took a decade off. She used straight pins to edit her manuscripts.
She was an accomplished home brewer.
Some believe Austen's death was a result of being poisoned. She's been cited in at least 27 written court decisions. Midcentury American writer Shirley Jackson has long been known for her spooky short story " The Lottery ," which caused widespread controversy when it came out in The New Yorker in and continues to appear in short story anthologies today.
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In , Laurence Jackson Hyman found a crate of unpublished stories by his mother, and, with his sister, Sarah Hyman Dewitt, turned them into a collection called Just an Ordinary Day. Bad news for us. Once, in a letter to a friend, she wrote , "I will only ask you to imagine the miseries of a reserved wretch like me, thrown at once into the midst of a large family … having the charge given me of a set of pampered, spoilt, and turbulent children, whom I was expected constantly to amuse as well as instruct. Other Books in This Series. Xxreadsxx added it Aug 29, Because so little of Austen's writing outside of her novels survives—her sister, Cassandra, purportedly destroyed much of her correspondence in an effort to keep some of Austen's scathing opinions away from polite society—it can be hard to assign motivations or emotions to some of her major milestones in life.
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