Truth or Fiction?

A novelist has come up with a new theory about Jane Austen's death. My first reaction was "you have got to be kidding!" A little more thought about the state of medicine in early 19th century England changed my opinion to "unlikely but not impossible."  She lived with her mother and sister, so who would poison her?

Read the article, then tell me what you think.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/14/jane-austen-arsenic-poisoning

Susannah