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Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback
1818–1877
A novelist remembered as Jane Austen’s niece, she turned family stories and her own literary instincts into fiction that helped keep Austen’s world alive for new readers. Her best-known work, The Younger Sister, grew out of an unfinished Austen manuscript and offers a rare glimpse of how one generation read and extended another.
5 Audiobooks
The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3
by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback
The old vicarage : A novel
by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback
The Younger Sister: A Novel, Vol. I.
by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback
The Younger Sister: A Novel, Vol. II.
by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback
The Younger Sister: A Novel, Vol. III.
by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback
About the author
Born Catherine Anne Austen in 1818, she was the daughter of Sir Francis Austen, Jane Austen’s brother, and later became Catherine Hubback after her marriage to John Hubback. Writing in the mid-19th century, she is best known for her close family connection to Jane Austen and for the way that connection shaped her literary reputation.
Her most famous book, The Younger Sister (1850), was developed from Jane Austen’s unfinished novel The Watsons. That made her part editor, part adaptor, and part novelist in her own right: she used Austen’s surviving fragment as a starting point and carried the story forward for Victorian readers.
Hubback also wrote other novels, including The Wife’s Sister and Agnes Milbourne. She died in 1877, and although she is often mentioned because of her aunt, her work also stands as an example of how literary influence can travel through a family and into a new generation of fiction.