 Nevertheless, believing that Catherine Hubback had absorbed from family members "an accurate picture of the author's intentions", he too kept his version close to Catherine’s original wording and incorporated all of Jane Austen's fragment at its start.What are curtailed are all the digressions that Mrs Hubback had added to give her novel context and the subplots that maintained its momentum.A further continuation came from John Coates (1912–63), a writer with no family connection but who had earlier written a time-travel novel, "Here Today" (1949), featuring a man who claimed to have wooed Jane Austen.