Edith C. (Edith Charlotte) Hubback

Born in 1876 as Edith Charlotte Hubback and later known as Edith Charlotte Brown, she was an English writer with a close family connection to Jane Austen: Austen was her great-great-aunt. That family link shaped much of her work and gave her a distinctive place among early Austen admirers and continuators.

In 1906, she and her father, J. H. Hubback, published Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers, a book about Austen’s brothers Francis and Charles Austen, both senior naval officers. She also became known for extending Austen’s unfinished fiction, including The Watsons, and for writing novels such as Margaret Dashwood; or, Interference and Susan Price; or, Resolution.

She died in 1945. Although she is not widely famous today, her writing remains interesting to readers who enjoy Jane Austen’s family history, literary afterlives, and the long tradition of authors trying to imagine what Austen’s unfinished stories might have become.