131:). The loss exacerbated Teréz Ferenczy's tendency to melancholy. It was only in 1853, which would be the year of her death, that her poems began to appear in newspapers and journals. At least one source notes that suicide already ran in the Ferenczy family, and on 22 May 1853 driven, it is reported, by disappointment in love and continuing grieving over her brother's death, Teréz Ferenczy shot herself in the heart. As the pathologist's report points out without sentiment, she narrowly avoided the main chambers of her heart, but nevertheless succeeded in killing herself. Reports of her death led to a surge of interest in her poetry, with the first of several collections published in 1854.
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