The complete Hubback, at last
Great news for aficionados of Jane Austen fan fiction: the long-inaccessible third volume of The Younger Sister, by Austen’s niece...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 3, 2014
Postscript to "The Watsons in Winter": Bless the Midwest!
The library gods are smiling upon us Janeites. As I reported in my recently completed Watsons in Winter blog series, Jane Austen’s...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 13, 2014
Wrapping up The Watsons in Winter
“Each of us has a private Austen,” Karen Joy Fowler writes at the beginning of The Jane Austen Book Club, her 2004 novel about how...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 10, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: Jennifer Ready Bettiol
Some Jane Austen fanfiction is produced by professional writers with one eye on a potentially profitable market. But much Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 6, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: Eucharista Ward
Jane Austen’s life was steeped in religion. As the daughter of an Anglican clergyman, she almost certainly believed in God, attended...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 3, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: Helen Baker
News flash: it’s hard to write like Jane Austen. I don’t just mean that it’s hard to emulate Austen’s diamond-bright sentences, with...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 30, 2014
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...
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...