Scott’s last novel which is called The Siege of Malta was published in 2008. However,  it was written in the last years of Scott’s life. It didn’t see the light of day until over 175 years later, when the full novel was published. A general idea of the content of the book had not been made known until 1977.  The Siege of Malta a historical novel. The latter portions of the work are marred by Scott’s ill health towards the end of his life. John Sutherland, Scott’s biographer, said that the novel indicates ‘a very wonderful mind, completely buggered up by explosions in the head.’
By Kishchenko Anton 

 In A Memoir of Jane Austen, her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh wrote, “She would, if asked, tell us many little particulars about the subsequent career of some of her people.” For example, Anne Steele, Lucy’s silly and vulgar sister in Sense and Sensibility, did not catch Dr. Davies after all. And, after the close of Pride and Prejudice, Kitty Bennet eventually married a clergyman near Pemberley, while Mary ended up with a clerk who worked for her Uncle Philips. Some of the most interesting revelations, however, related to Emma. Mr. Woodhouse not only survived Emma’s marriage to Mr. Knightley, but also kept his daughter and son-in-law living at Hartfield for two years. Deirdre Le Faye has also noted in Jane Austen: A Family Record that "According to a less well-known tradition, the delicate Jane Fairfax lived only another nine or ten years after her marriage to Frank Churchill."

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