- Catherine Hubback
Infobox Writer
name = Catherine Anne Hubback
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birthdate = 1818
birthplace = England
deathdate =25 Feb 1877
deathplace = Gainesville, Prince William Co., VA
occupation = Novelist
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movement =
notableworks =The Watsons - A completion
influences = Jane Austen
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website =Catherine-Anne Hubback, (1818 – 1877) was an English novelist and the niece of
Jane Austen .She began writing fiction to support her family after her husband was institutionalized with a breakdown. She had copies of some of her aunts unfinished works and, in 1850, remembering Austen's proposed plot, she wrote "
The Younger Sister ", a completion of Jane Austen's "The Watsons ". In the next thirteen years, she completed nine more novels.She emigrated to California, USA in 1870. In the autumn of 1876 she removed to Gainesville, Prince William Co, VA and died there on February 25, 1877. Her novels, which enjoyed some popularity in their time, are seldom read in this era and are difficult to obtain. Her most important contribution is to literary history where she, and later family, perpetuated Austen family history.
External links
* [http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hubback/intro.html "The Victorian Web-Works and Literary Significance"]
* [http://scholars.nus.edu.sg/victorian/authors/hubback/bio.html "The Victorian Web-Biography"]
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