Jane Austen's Sanditon A Continuation Author:Anna Austen Lefroy Anna Austen Lefroy was Jane Austen's niece. They actually discussed and corresponded about the seaside story’s beginnings and its main characters. Upon Aunt Jane’s death, Lefroy inherited the original manuscript fragment. An author in her own right, she attempted to finish the story, but later wrote it “was too little... more » advanced to enable one to form any idea of the [final] plot.” Lefroy’s work was ultimately unearthed in a 1977 auction and published, (in its incomplete state), in 1983. She introduces new characters, including Sidney Parker’s eligible comrade Mr. Tracy.« less