Edith C. (Edith Charlotte) Hubback

Edith Charlotte Brown, née Hubback (1876–1945), was an English writer who also published as Edith C. Hubback and Mrs Francis Brown. She is remembered chiefly for books linked to Jane Austen, who was her great-great-aunt, and for a literary career that blended family history with imaginative continuation.

In 1906, she and her father, John Henry Hubback, published Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers, a nonfiction book about Francis and Charles Austen. She married James Francis Leadley Brown in 1907, and sources note that the couple spent some years in Saskatchewan, Canada, before later returning to the Wirral in England.

Her best-known fiction includes a completed version of Austen’s unfinished The Watsons (1928), followed by Margaret Dashwood, or, Interference (1929), a sequel to Sense and Sensibility, and Susan Price, or, Resolution (1930), a sequel to Mansfield Park. Her work stands out for its close relationship to Austen’s world, making her especially interesting to listeners who enjoy literary afterlives, family connections, and early 20th-century Austen-inspired fiction.