 In 1850, Jane's niece Catherine Hubback adapted the plot into a three-volume novel under the title "The Younger Sister".The initial chapters were based on Jane’s fragmentary story, which was known to family members but had still not been published at the time.The writing, however, was not word for word from the manuscript and in the development of the story some names were changed and new characters and episodes introduced, as well as long moralising passages and a good deal of descriptive detail.