This article from the Tillsonburg News kindly (?) reminds us that TB is far from eradicated and perhaps even on the rise.
The article is called "Killer with a taste for genius" since it is well known that many writers have died prey of this awful disease. No need to say that the Brontë family as a whole is mentioned.
Like a morbid premonition of the devastation that AIDS inflicted in the artistic communities of Europe and North America in the 1980s and ‘90s, a terrifying number of the most famous writers and artists succumbed to consumption, often driven by the telltale death sentence of a few drops of blood on the handkerchief to prodigious feats of creativity. Keats, D.H. Lawrence, Modigliani, the Bronte family, Chopin, Orwell, Kafka and Chekhov had to squeeze the work of a dozen ordinary lifetimes into four decades or fewer.We feel morally obliged though to inform Mr Jim Pegg that not every member of the Brontë family died of TB though.
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