Can there be a tale more outrageous than that told of George Wickham and Lydia Bennet. Our much maligned couple fell in love, or something very like it, and have now fled along the road to Gretna Green. Will they ever reach the anvil? For previous installments in this series, click here: One, Two, Three, …
It was with a great deal of sadness that I learned of the passing of Benjamin Whitrow from Adrian last week. Ben is better known to the Jane Austen community as the quintessential Mr Bennet and starred opposite Adrian in the BBC’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. I was very fortunate to work with Ben …
Welcome back to the next chapter in our scandalous tale! Lydia Bennet, never one to let a chance slip past, has engineered a liaison with George Wickham safely away from prying eyes. Yet who is the hunter, and who the game? Click here for parts One, Two, Three, Four and Five. Lydia opened her eyes …
When Miss Lydia Bennet and Mr George Wickham find themselves quite by accident meeting at a Brighton ball, dancing is the last thing on their minds… Lydia has been dreaming about this ball for a long while, and quite sadly, she is due to return to Longbourn within the week. Our dear girl’s sentiments are engaged, but …
Last week, George Wickham and Lydia Bennet indulged in a little stargazing exchanged a scandalous, stolen kiss in Brighton, but what happened next? All can now be revealed in this cache of rather illuminating letters between the clandestine couple, who were certainly not above taking one or two risks. A heady time indeed, it would …
As readers probably already know, I’m fortunate enough to work alongside Adrian Lukis, better known to some as the notorious Mr Wickham, on his marvellous theatrical extravaganza, An Evening with Jane Austen. This Autumn, the show is embarking on a mini-tour of Southern England, as we would love to see you there. Click here for tickets …
Friends, I recently invited you to share your questions with me and benefit from my experience of this wide world of ours. Happily, I have received missives from a good many correspondents, and can now address myself to the task of answering your queries. Of course, do continue to send me your thoughts, there is nothing …
Many decades have passed since George Wickham married Lydia Bennet and that marriage, which many greeted with a note of caution, has proved fruitful, happy and, it must be said, exceptionally eventful. George Wickham’s hellraising reputation will never leave him no matter how many medals he wears but over the years, those scheming edges of …
George Wickham writes… Friends, in my capacity as a gentleman of the world, I have been fortunate to see many things and become a fellow of wide and varied experience. This means, of course, that I have also gathered a fair few little tips and tricks that might help a gentleman navigate his life with …
The plundering of the papers of Mr Wickham have yielded a most illuminating correspondence with his old friend and brother-in-law, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Imagine our delight to discover that it extended to include correspondence from Mr Wickham’s grandson, Harry*, too. If you missed the first instalments of this series, you can read part one here and part two here. We hope …
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