Mr. Underwood in Charlotte Yonge's The Pillars of the House has
consumption, and dies a pious death early in the book, but not
before giving his wife 13 children in 16 years, which evidently
doesn't do very much for *her* physical or mental health.
The father in Mary Mapes Dodge's Hans Brinker,
Lorna at Wynyard's dad is ill and then dies. From my
reading of this, he has been ill a while.
--- Tom Tash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As soon as I posted, I thought of Dr Carr - was he
sick or just old? - and
Emily of New Moon's father has consumption before
shuffling off.
Natasha
