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Jane Austen's sailor brothers

Name: Jane Austen's sailor brothers
Author: Edith C. (Edith Charlotte) Hubback

by Edith C. (Edith Charlotte) Hubback, J. H. (John Henry) Hubback

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Jane Austen's sailor brothers Being the adventures of Sir Francis Austen, G.C.B., Admiral of the Fleet and Rear-Admiral Charles Austen

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United Kingdom: John Lane, 1906.

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MWS, Krista Zaleski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Release date

2023-01-18

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Admirals -- Great Britain -- Biography Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Family relationships Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Family Austen, Francis, Sir, 1774-1865 Austen, Charles, 1779-1852 Austin family Siblings -- England -- Biography

About the authors

Edith C. (Edith Charlotte) Hubback

1876–1945

Best known for completing and extending Jane Austen’s world, this English writer brought a family connection to her fiction: Austen was her great-great-aunt. Her novels and literary continuations were shaped by both affection for Austen and a confident wish to carry those stories further.

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J. H. (John Henry) Hubback

b. 1844

A great-nephew of Jane Austen, he helped preserve his family’s stories in print. He is best known for co-authoring Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers with his daughter Edith, drawing on close family connections to Austen’s world.

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