 Such an argument, however, was merely one more addition to the many theories why Jane Austen had never completed the fragment.An earlier article by Joseph Wiesenfarth disagreed with the speculation that the novel was unfinished because of the unhappy associations for the author of the time it was written and that it covered a theme too close to her own circumstances.And in reviewing the theory that the plot had been rewritten as "Emma", Wiesenfarth advanced the counter-argument that "The Watsons" was "a pre-text – a text that comes before other texts".