Her death certificate gives the cause of death as phthisis ( tuberculosis ), but many biographers suggest she may have died from dehydration and malnourishment, caused by excessive vomiting from severe morning sickness or hyperemesis gravidarum.

Some biographers suggest that Polo was born in the town of Korčula ( Curzola ), on the island of Korčula in today's Croatia, however there is no proof to this claim.

Victory, as far as wit was concerned, remained with Marot, but his biographers suggest that a certain amount of ill-will was created against him by the squabble, and that, as in Dolet's case, his subsequent misfortunes were partly the result of his own rashness.

Another of Aberhart's characters, the bumbling socialist C. C. Heifer, did not make an appearance ; Aberhart biographers David Elliott and Iris Miller suggest that this was to avoid alienating the many UFA members who supported socialism.

It is unclear when Keats first drafted " Bright Star "; his biographers suggest different dates.

Had Louis XVI had him as a music instructor earlier in his life instead of, as biographers suggest, a musical mediocrity who chilled his interest in the violin, he might have become a royal composer like Frederick the Great of Prussia.

Disraeli's biographers agree that Vivian Grey was a thinly veiled re-telling of the affair of The Representative, and it proved very popular on its release, although it also caused much offence within the Tory literary world when Disraeli's authorship was discovered.

Furthermore, John Murray believed that Disraeli had caricatured him and abused his confidence – an accusation denied at the time, and by the official biography, although subsequent biographers ( notably Blake ) have sided with Murray.

At least one of the letters to Ausonius has led to speculation that Paulinus may have been homosexual, although this interpretation has not been supported by other biographers.

Charles Thomas, one of Marshall's biographers, wrote that although Marshall's assumption of the presidency would have made World War II much less likely, modern hypothetical speculation on the subject was unfair to Marshall, who made the correct decision in not forcibly removing Wilson from office, even temporarily.

Some biographers have said that Stephen was a misogynist, although this has recently been questioned, and he may have felt emotionally attached to Albert Victor, but whether or not his feelings were overtly homosexual is open to question.

Recording took place at Century Sound Studios in New York City during three sessions in September and October 1968, although most participants and biographers agree that the eight songs were culled from the first and last early evening sessions.

There are a number of biographies of Indian musicians although some critics feel that Indian biographers have not paid due attention to the music.

This had been a safe Conservative seat but its sitting MP Shaun Woodward ( who had worked with Cameron on the 1992 election campaign ) had " crossed the floor " to join the Labour Party ; newspapers claimed Cameron and Woodward had " loathed each other ", although Cameron's biographers Francis Elliott and James Hanning describe them as being " on fairly friendly terms ".

Though Nobel remained unmarried, his biographers note that he had at least three loves.

Most biographers blame Lerner's professional decline on the lack of a strong director with whom Lerner could collaborate, as Neil Simon did with Mike Nichols or Stephen Sondheim with Harold Prince ( Moss Hart, who had directed My Fair Lady, died shortly after Camelot opened ).

Written in French except for one postscript in English, the letters broke Charlotte's image as an angelic martyr to Christian and female duties that had been constructed by many biographers, beginning with Gaskell.

After Wittgenstein's death, Hayek had intended to write a biography of Wittgenstein and worked on collecting family materials, and he later assisted biographers of Wittgenstein.

One of Mitchell's biographers, Darden Asbury Pyron, stated that Margaret Mitchell had " an intense relationship " with her mother, who was Roman Catholic.

The biographers mention that Pope Gregory XIV had a nervous tendency to laughter, which occasionally became irresistible and even manifested itself at his coronation.

Word of her exploits had encouraged her family, and biographers agree that she became more confident with each trip to Maryland.

Allegations that he was racist or had totalitarian beliefs have been rejected by biographers such as Robert Skidelsky.

Lawrence's biographers have had a mixed reaction towards the film.

Hals had a large workshop in Haarlem and many students, though 19th century biographers questioned some of his pupils, since their painting styles were so dissimilar to Hals.

Most of his biographers reject or ignore the account of his younger brother and follower, Maurelio ( later fra Mauro ), that in his youth Girolamo had been spurned by a neighbor, Laudomia Strozzi, to whom he proposed marriage.

Recent biographers and others think it highly likely that Garbo was bisexual, or lesbian, and that she had intimate relationships with women as well as with men.

Wilhelm von Sternburg, one of Ossietzky's biographers, surmises that if Ossietzky had had a few more days, he would surely have joined the vast majority of writers who fled the country.

Once Alexander had sliced the knot with a sword-stroke, his biographers claimed in retrospect that an oracle further prophesied that the one to untie the knot would become the king of Asia.

One of Buechner's biographers, Marjorie Casebier McCoy, describes the effect of his time at Exeter as follows: " Buechner in his sermons had been attempting to reach out to the " cultured despisers of religion.

Smetana's biographers describe him as physically frail and unimpressive in appearance, yet at least in his youth he had a joie-de-vivre which women evidently found attractive.

One of his biographers, Jasper Ridley, argues that had he been in control of foreign policy at this time, war in the Crimea would have been avoided.

One of his biographers speculated that he surely realized by this time that he had a strong taste for organizing and administering.

Sillard, one of Mitchel's biographers, quoted from the speech of Mitchel's defence Council Robert Holms, " The foreman of the Grand Jury, gentlemen, having been asked if the jury had found bills against the prisoner — replied — ' Oh yes, we find him guilty of sedition.

He had previously been head of the British Steel Corporation, which, according to one of Thatcher's biographers, he had turned from one of the least efficient steel-makers in Europe to one of the most efficient, nearly bringing the company into profit.

He is best remembered for his poetry, but according to accounts by his descendants and biographers, Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl and Juan Bautista de Pomar, he had an experience of an " Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere " to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed — not even those of animals.

For one of his biographers, Hepworth Dixon, Bacon's influence in modern world is so great that every man who rides in a train, sends a telegram, follows a steam plough, sits in an easy chair, crosses the channel or the Atlantic, eats a good dinner, enjoys a beautiful garden, or undergoes a painless surgical operation, owes him something.

One of his biographers has stated that: " Like many Pittites, now labelled tories, he was a good whig at heart ".

Friends and biographers described him as a solitary man who gave generously to charity, loved his family and enjoyed a good game of poker.

In 1587 the grand-duke Francesco died ; to this event Sozzini's biographers attribute the loss of his Italian property, but his unpublished letters show that he was on good terms with the new grand-duke, Ferdinando.

Victoria had " too little chin to be conventionally beautiful ," in the opinion of one of her biographers, but " she had a good figure, deep blue eyes, and dark complexion.

Later critics believed that it is possible that Richardson's work failed because the story deals with a " good man " instead of a " rake ", which prompted Richardson's biographers Thomas Eaves and Ben Kimpel to claim, this " might account for the rather uneasy relationship between the story of the novel and the character of its hero, who is never credible in his double love — or in any love.