Claim: Catherine Hubback, an English novelist who began writing fiction to support herself and her three sons, was the niece of Jane Austen.
Evidence: She began writing fiction to support herself and her three sons after her husband John Hubback was institutionalized. Catherine Anne Hubback (1818 – 25 February 1877) was an English novelist, and the eighth child and fourth daughter of Sir Francis Austen (1774–1865), and niece of English novelist Jane Austen.