author
Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback
1818–1877
An English novelist from Jane Austen’s family, she turned to writing during a difficult period in her life and became best known for completing her aunt’s unfinished story The Watsons as The Younger Sister. Her work offers a fascinating bridge between the Austen circle and the wider world of Victorian fiction.
5 Audiobooks
The Younger Sister: A Novel, Vol. III.
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. I.
by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback
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
About the author
Born Catherine Anne Austen on 7 July 1818, she was the daughter of Sir Francis Austen and a niece of Jane Austen. She grew up in a family closely tied to literary history, though she was born after her famous aunt’s death.
She married John Hubback in 1841 and later began writing fiction to help support herself and her children after her husband suffered a severe mental breakdown and was confined to an asylum. Her best-known book, The Younger Sister (1850), was based on Jane Austen’s unfinished novel The Watsons, and she went on to publish several other novels.
Hubback spent her later years in the United States, where she died in Virginia on 25 February 1877. Though often remembered because of her connection to Jane Austen, she also deserves notice in her own right as a hardworking Victorian novelist who wrote under pressure and left behind a distinctive literary record.