This chapter is about a myth that was hatched by Jane Austen's brother, Henry Austen. According to this myth, Austen took up novel-writing in secret, but her brothers found the manuscripts and brought them to life as published works. The mythmaking can be understood partly as the Jane Austen family's attempt to deal with the increasing public interest in Austen and her writing that developed after her death. Jane Austen was writing at a time when fame was undergoing immense change as a result of the emergence of celebrity culture. The market necessitated new strategies for managing fame recognition and the enhanced aura of the author. The emergence of the institution of literary property and the Romantic conception of authorship entailed new strategies of immortality. The task of managing the social entailments of fame was especially complex for women writers. Austen was not implacably opposed to people knowing once the secret got out.