Here's a useful article from JASNA about Henry. Particularly interesting in the context of his bankruptcy is the point: `Henry's bank was forced into bankruptcy. Henry's last task before leaving London was to buy back the manuscript of "Catherine" (Northanger Abbey) from the publisher, Crosby, to whom he had sold it in 1803. Crosby obviously did not realize that the anonymous "Lady" author was the woman who had written Pride and Prejudice. '