 Mrs Hubback's novel was quarried yet again in 1977 by David Hopkinson (1914-2002), the husband of Diana Hubback - a niece of Edith Brown.This relationship was coyly concealed on publication under the title "The Watsons by Jane Austen and Another".A postscript surveyed the history of the family continuations and criticised the Brown version which "so greatly compressed the plot's development that it did less than justice to Jane's own work when all it yielded was so perfunctory a conclusion".