The Watsons in Winter: Merryn Williams
Merryn Williams’ completion of The Watsons, Jane Austen’s fragment of a novel, is a modest undertaking. With new material that runs only...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 27, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: Joan Aiken
Joan Aiken’s books were among the delights of my childhood – propulsive, plot-driven novels in the Gothic spirit of Victorian classics...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 23, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: David Hopkinson ("Another")
What is it with the extended Hubback clan? They just can’t seem to get enough of Jane Austen’s fragment The Watsons. The first person to...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 20, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: John Coates
Jane Austen was not perfect. Not every sentence that fell from her pen was a masterpiece; like all of us, she needed an editor’s eye from...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 16, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: Edith Hubback Brown
Less than two sentences into her preface, Edith Hubback Brown is already asserting her genetic right to complete Jane Austen’s fragment...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 13, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: L. Oulton
Catherine Hubback, the first person to try her hand at a completion of Jane Austen’s fragment The Watsons, is no longer an entirely...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 9, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: Catherine Hubback
The first-ever completion of Jane Austen’s fragment The Watsons – Catherine Hubback’s 1850 novel The Younger Sister, the subject of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 6, 2014
The Watsons in Winter
The Watsons, the novel Jane Austen started and then abandoned on the cusp of her thirties, is a wintry book: not, perhaps, in its...
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