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Welcome to the History Extra podcast. Today marks the fourth and final installment of our Sunday series on Jane Austen, in which Lauren Good is joined by Dr Lizzie Rogers to explore the author's life and cultural afterlife. And if you've enjoyed this four-part series, join us next week when we'll be exploring the final days of Pompeii. But for now, it's over to Lauren and Lizzie.

What led to Jane Austen's death? And what does her writing from later life tell us about her changing ideas? I'm Lauren Good and in this fourth and final episode of our four-part

series on the influential novelist's life and writings. I'm joined by

Dr Lizzie Rogers as we chart the end of Austin's life, from her worsening illness to how her grave

remembers her, as well as the astonishing legacy of her writing and their continued adaptations today.

Lizzie, we start this episode in 1816. Up to this point, we've seen Jane experience a lot

of literary success, but she's sadly become unwell. At this point, she's 40 years old. Do we

know what she was suffering from? So various things have been

suggested. We don't know for definite what she was suffering from. And various historians, medical

professionals have had to look at it. The kind of most common things that people suggest

that Addison's disease or lupus, but we simply don't know. We just know that it's something

that really kind of we all and stay with her other brother's kind of relatives and staying with them as they're having children and things like that. But it's a lot of movement without a specific home to go back to. Whereas when she was doing this when she was at Steventon, she had a specific home to go back to.

This does bear a striking resemblance to the plot of sense and sensibility.

We might assume that the book was inspired by these experiences, but we know that she has been

working on a manuscript, Eleanor and Marianne, earlier on. Do we know if this manuscript changed

according to this new inspiration that Jane was experiencing? So with Eleanor and Marianne, she actually does

the bulk of editing of it to change it from a novel written in letters into the prose novel

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