Category: Writers

Author and poet best remembered for writing children’s fairy tales, died of liver cancer at the home of a friend.

Writer and poet best known for his Gothic fiction, spoke these last words on his deathbed to the physician attending him. He died at Washington College Hospital, the cause of death is a mystery.

Novelist and poet, author of Jane Eyre, these final words were spoken to her husband Arthur. But God did separate them, and she died of tuberculosis together with her unborn child.

Influential author, this is the final line in the suicide note left to her husband. She drowned by filling her coat pockets with stones and walking into the River Ouse, her body was found three weeks later.

Spoken jokingly shortly before his death, the impoverished poet and playwright died of meningitis in Paris.

The famous novelist’s final words spoken to her sister Cassandra, welcoming death as she was in agonising pain from Addison’s disease.