In 1906, she and her father published a book about "Jane Austen's sailor brothers", Francis and Charles, both very senior naval officers.
The following year Edith Hubback married James Francis Leadley Brown in the Wirral, Cheshire, England, where both of them were born.
A review in the Times Literary Supplement was not very enthusiastic about Edith Brown's attempt although it did concede that she had "skill and tact".
This attracted some favourable comments in the press, and the publisher advertised it with quotes from The Times and The Spectator mentioning "accurate" and "authentic" echoes of Jane Austen's style and atmosphere.
[3] Her next work Susan Price, or, Resolution (1930), a sequel to Mansfield Park, was an "ingenious and delightful romance" according to The Morning Post.