Catherine Hubback
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Catherine Anne Hubback | |
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Born | 1818 England |
Died | 25 Feb 1877 Gainesville, Prince William Co., VA |
Occupation | Novelist |
Notable work(s) | The Watsons - A completion |
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Catherine-Anne Hubback, (1818 – 1877) was an English novelist and the niece of Jane Austen.
She began writing fiction to support her family after her husband was institutionalized with a breakdown. She had copies of some of her aunts unfinished works and, in 1850, remembering Austen's proposed plot, she wrote The Younger Sister, a completion of Jane Austen's The Watsons. In the next thirteen years, she completed nine more novels.
She emigrated to California, USA in 1870. In the autumn of 1876 she removed to Gainesville, Prince William Co, VA and died there on February 25, 1877. Her novels, which enjoyed some popularity in their time, are seldom read in this era and are difficult to obtain. Her most important contribution is to literary history where she, and later family, perpetuated Austen family history.
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