death_place death_date birth_place influences notableworks birth_date article_title name occupation
gainesville , prince william co. , va 25 february 1877 england jane austen '' the watsons -- a completion '' 1818 catherine hubback
 catherine anne hubback novelist
catherine hubback

catherine anne hubback -lrb- 1818 -- 25 february 1877 -rrb- was an english novelist , and the eighth child and fourth daughter of sir francis austen -lrb- 1774-1865 -rrb- , and niece of jane austen .
she began writing fiction to support herself and her three sons after her husband john hubback was institutionalized with a breakdown .
she had copies of some of her aunt 's 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 , where she died in 1877 .
her novels , which enjoyed some popularity in their time , are no longer well-known .
her most important contribution is to literary history where she , and later family , perpetuated austen family history .
