Catherine Hubback Catherine Hubback 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. She began writing fiction to support herself and her three sons after her husband John Hubback was institutionalized. 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 following thirteen years, she completed nine more novels. Catherine Hubback began writing fictional novels to support her
Anne of the Island the story of Anne Shirley in a series of sequels. They are listed in the order of Anne's age in each novel. The musical "Anne & Gilbert" drew from this book in the second act - Anne and Gilbert also draws from "Anne of Avonlea". The television mini-series "Anne of Green Gables - The Sequel" (1987) starring Megan Follows was largely inspired by this book, along with "Anne of Avonlea" and "Anne of Windy Poplars". Anne of the Island "Anne of the Island" is the third book in the "Anne of Green Gables" series, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery about