Vomiting in the nineteenth century, & literature.

From Lord Byron’s Don Juan:
Than I resign thine image, oh, my fair!
Or think of any thing excepting thee;
A mind diseased no remedy can physic
(Here the ship gave a lurch, and he grew sea-sick).
“Sooner shall heaven kiss earth (here he fell sicker),
Oh, Julia! what is every other woe?
(For [...]

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Why heroines die in classic fiction

Why do heroines die in classic fiction? BBC had doctors analyse the death of Sense and Sensibility’s Marianne, Wuthering Heights’s Catherine, and Bleak House’s Lady Dedlock. Fun!
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7060533.stm

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