Kitty’s cough

Kitty’s cough Written by Margaret S (5/2/2007 8:19 a.m.)

I’ve read somewhere (a newspaper quiz on Austen or something else equally unreliable) that Kitty’s cough might have suggested tuberculosis.

Kitty’s cough Margaret S (5/2/2007 8:19 a.m.)

Kitty coughs in one chapter! Karen 2L (5/3/2007 10:58 a.m.)
- LOL...nfm Gloria (5/3/2007 7:32 p.m.)
I have always supposed... Lia (5/2/2007 6:19 p.m.)
- And I always thought... Kathi (5/2/2007 8:39 p.m.)
- "cough as a literary device"!!! Maria Liourdi (5/2/2007 7:33 p.m.)
At first I thought so, too Donna H (5/2/2007 2:41 p.m.)
In a different context.... Arnie Perlstein (5/2/2007 11:37 a.m.)
- I initially... Marilynn (5/2/2007 12:06 p.m.)
  - Great minds, etc.... nfm Arnie Perlstein (5/2/2007 12:43 p.m.)
Perhaps... Marilynn (5/2/2007 11:28 a.m.)
- My thought exactly. nfm Ana L (5/2/2007 11:34 a.m.)
I doubt it. Andrea Gayle (5/2/2007 10:15 a.m.)
- Also what would be the purpose of Kitty having TB? Tracy W (5/3/2007 1:41 a.m.)
- TB? Nonsense! Spencer (5/2/2007 5:52 p.m.)
  - Nervous cough? Jean B (5/3/2007 12:30 p.m.)
    - I think Mr Bennet would joke about that Tracy W (5/3/2007 5:21 p.m.)
      - Yes, but... Lia (5/4/2007 7:09 p.m.)
  - I agree Line (5/2/2007 10:39 p.m.)
  - I thought.... Nabilah S. (5/2/2007 8:59 p.m.)

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