Over the past months we have followed George Wickham and Lydia Bennet from the ballrooms to Brighton to the altar, via Napoleonic spies, heroic encounters and a lot of sauce. Today our tale of this infamous couple concludes; we hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as we have! Catherine Curzon and Nicole Clarkston You can …
Friends, there are few people who do not know the story of my courtship with the fragrant Miss Lydia Bennet. Or rather, few who think that they do not. In fact, there was considerably more to the tale than my erstwhile official chronicler might have told. I am pleased to report, however, that the full, uncensored and rather …
Mr Wickham returns with a tale of bigamy and a chance to win a book; read on and find out how! —oOo— Friends, it is no secret to anyone that I am a romantic sort of fellow. Why, what is more pleasurable than a shared glance, a turn about the floor, the whispered words of …
Is Caroline Bingley green with envy as she notices Mr. Darcy’s attentions to Elizabeth Bennet? Does Emma Woodhouse wish unspeakable horrors on Harriet Smith because of Harriet’s crush on Mr. Knightley? After Willoughby, does Marianne covet Elinor’s more sensible behaviour? We could go on for ages, but it’s only for this month so don’t miss …
Throughout her works, Austen presents us with characters who marry for a wide variety or reasons. Those who marry for love, like Elizabeth and Darcy or Jane and Bingley, are arguably the ones who most appeal to modern readers. But characters who marry (or attempt to marry) for less noble reasons abound: Wickham’s marriage to …
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