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Helen Burns, Jane Eyre, Fantine, Les Miserables, Satine, Moulin Rouge, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, Finding Neverland, Isabel Neville, The White Queen, Mrs. Hale and Bessy Higgins, North and South, Frances Hindley, Wuthering Heights, Mrs. Alma Wheatley, The Queen's Gambit, Queen Anne, The White Queen

#I know some of these women have well-documented illnesses #but it still makes me laugh #because a cough is totally shorthand for a character dying soon in a period piece #and they rarely tell you what is wrong #kitty should have been marked for death!#but she lived!#kitty bennet #jane austen memes #stupidity #jane austen #pride and prejudice #tv tropes #period dramas #edit for a mix up

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