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I didn't say that ignorance of the cause necessarily leads to the conclusion that there was a conspiracy, or even that one person was the agent, but that the circumstances of their deaths encourages interesting speculation. Three of them dead within a year, the other dying nine months after marriage to a seemingly tyrannical man, hmmm, I wonder whether 'consumption', rather than being what we now term 'tuberculosis' was just a blanket medical term used then for 'illness unknown', a little like 'viral infection' is used now for a high fever of unknown origin. But the unknown illness in the case of the Bronte sisters (I accept that Bramwell drank himself to death) could well have been poison. After all this time, there's very little way of proving what killed them, except, maybe exhumation, to test bones and hair for signs of obvious poisons such as arsenic. I'm not even certain that would still be detectable.
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