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I'm studying Jane Eyre currently and am still confused as to what Helen Burns dies of if it isn't typhus. What does she die of?
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I'm studying Jane Eyre currently and am still confused as to what Helen Burns dies of if it isn't typhus. What does she die of?

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While Jane is enjoying nature's beauty with her new friend, Mary Ann Wilson, Helen Burns is slowly dying, not of typhus, but of consumption. Jane doesn't realize the seriousness of this disease until she learns from the nurse that Helen will soon die.

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