Category: Catherine Curzon

Darcy and Wickham: The Duties of Friendship Part III

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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Darcy and Wickham: The Duties of Friendship Part II

If you have been following the unearthing of Mr Wickham’s journals by his archivist and biographer, Catherine Curzon, you may have noted that in his later years, the self-professed scoundrel seems to have been reconciled to his boyhood companion and brother-in-law, Fitzwilliam Darcy. It seems that the two became somewhat regular correspondants, despite the *ahem* …

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Words from Experience to Youth: Part Four

Welcome to the part four of our special March Mashup! Plans are afoot for the silver-haired George Wickham and his silk-clad wife to visit Margaret Thornton in her new marital home. Read on to learn of perfume, scandal and Mrs Wickham’s hard-won battle with her ornamental feathers. If you would like to catch up with the correspondence, …

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Words from Experience to Youth: Part Three

Welcome to the third installment of this March Mashup special series! Once again, we bring you evidence of a remarkable and highly unlikely friendship: that of a wiser George Wickham and a young Margaret Hale. We hope you enjoy his mature reflections and witticisms as he advises and befriends the new wife of a cotton …

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Words from Experience to Youth: Part Two

Welcome to another edition of March Mashups! Today we continue our serialisation of the letters exchanged between the young Margaret Hale and the rather more seasoned George Wickham. Discovered in their respective archives, these letters offer an invaluable insight into a most unlikely friendship. We hope you enjoy reading them. -Catherine Curzon and Nicole Clarkston …

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Words from Experience to Youth

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of March Mashups! Today we bring you a series of letters exchanged between the most unlikely of correspondants- a young Margaret Hale, and an older and much wiser George Wickham.  When Catherine was compiling some of Mr Wickham’s later correspondence, she stumbled across a curious set of letters from …

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The George Wickham Papers: An Announcement

Dearest readers, Well now, here’s a pretty thing for a soldier with no ambitions beyond the defence of the realm and the happiness of my good lady. Yesterday I was merely George Wickham, soldier, husband, friend and occasional rogue and today I am here talking to you, the people who know me only through the …

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Jane in January: Mr Wickham on Racing and Scandal

Dear readers, I am not a writer. I am George Wickham; soldier, husband, occasional rogue, perhaps, but certainly not a man of letters, poetry or words. Today, however, in honour of the estimable Miss Austen, it is my pleasure to be able to offer you the opportunity to win a book, free without charge, in return …

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Festive Felicitations from Mr Wickham

Dearest readers, I have broken free from the constraints of time and literature to address you personally, and might I say it is an absolute pleasure to do so. To those who are following my memoirs, I thank you; they are to take a break over the Christmas period, but rest assured that they, and …

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The George Wickham Papers: Regarding Lydia

[This note was scribbled on the back of the papers published in chapter 3. It appears that GW was concerned about some of the revelations contained therein and wished his editor to exercise discretion. As always, the project page can be found on Facebook. Previous chapters can be found here.] My dear sir, Well, that was a night and a …

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