The Watsons by Jane Austen, Francis Brown, and Edith C. Hubback
The Watsons is an abandoned novel by Jane Austen, probably begun about 1803. There have been a number of arguments advanced as to why she did not complete it, and other authors have since attempted the task. A continuation by Austen's niece was published in 1850. The manuscript fragment itself was published in 1871. Further completions and adaptations of the story have continued to the present day. (This summary is from Wikipedia.)
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| Author | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 |
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| Author | Brown, Francis, 1874-1955 |
| Author | Hubback, Edith C. (Edith Charlotte), 1876-1945 |
| Title | The Watsons |
| Original Publication | London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd., 1928. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watsons |
| Note | An unfinished novel by Jane Austen "completed in accordance with her intentions by Edith (her great grand-niece) and Francis Brown." |
| Credits | Carla Foust, Mary Glenn Krause, University of California, Jane Austen Books and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Summary | The Watsons is an abandoned novel by Jane Austen, probably begun about 1803. There have been a number of arguments advanced as to why she did not complete it, and other authors have since attempted the task. A continuation by Austen's niece was published in 1850. The manuscript fragment itself was published in 1871. Further completions and adaptations of the story have continued to the present day. (This summary is from Wikipedia.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Subject | Young women -- Fiction |
| Subject | Love stories |
| Subject | Sisters -- Fiction |
| Subject | Mate selection -- Fiction |
| Subject | Families -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77117 |
| Release Date | Oct 24, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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