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Jane Austen
Jane Austen, a 19th-century engraving likely derived from a portrait by her sister, Cassandra Austen, c. 1810.
The English novelist Jane Austen died on July 18, 1817, in Winchester, Hampshire, England.12
She had traveled to Winchester in May 1817 to seek medical care from an expert surgeon due to declining health, which modern clinical assessments suggest may have been Addison disease, though other theories include lupus or Hodgkin disease. She was buried six days after her death in Winchester Cathedral.2