Catherine Hubback, an English novelist who began writing fiction to support herself and her three sons, was the niece of Jane Austen.
She began writing fiction to support herself and her three sons after her husband John Hubback was institutionalized. Catherine Anne Hubback (1818  25 February 1877) was an English novelist, and the eighth child and fourth daughter of Sir Francis Austen (17741865), and niece of English novelist Jane Austen. 
