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earthspark-shockwaves-reduction · 5 months

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reading pride and prejudice and seeing how mr. wickham made himself seem sympathetic and charming and portray himself as being wronged but it turned out he was manipulating everyone and was actually the one in the wrong and preying on the trusting nature of a naive character and looking up from my phone and thinking to myself like. wait a damn fucking minute

#i love parallels! i also fucking hate everything :)#mine #transformers #tf #maccadam #mtmte #getaway #pride and prejudice #mr. wickham #...was not expecting tf & p&p to be in the same post

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bloodsuckingviolet · 2 years

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Mr. Darcy: yeah, i'm single

Mr. Darcy: single handedly destroying my family's expectations

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toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account · 5 months

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rip mr. wickham you would've loved minecraft youtubers

#...........bc they're both gr-#okay bye #mine #pride and prejudice #mr. wickham

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spaceofunknown · 2 years

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Ah yes the Austen villain to Star Wars villain pipeline.

#rupert friend #kenobi #pride and prejudice #mr. wickham #the grand inquisitor #watch out or quizzy will elope with your sister and ruin your family by association

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bargainsleuthbooks · 1 year

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The Late Mrs. Willoughby (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery) by Claudia Gray #ARC #BookReview #NewBooks #JaneAusten

There's a new mystery featuring Jane Austen's characters' children. I thoroughly enjoyed #TheMurderofMrWickham, would it be the same for #TheLateMrsWilloughby #NetGalley #ARC #BookReview #Jane Austen #newbooks #MrDarcyandMissTilneyMystery #vikingbooks

Catherine and Henry Tilney of Northanger Abbey are not entirely pleased to be sending their eligible young daughter Juliet out into the world again: the last house party she attended, at the home of the Knightleys, involved a murder—which Juliet helped solve. Particularly concerning is that she intends to visit her new friend Marianne Brandon, who’s returned home to Devonshire shrouded in fresh…

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#ARC #ARC Review #Claudia Gray #Jane Austen #May 2023 Books #Miss Tilney #Mr. Darcy #Mr. Wickham #Mystery #NetGalley #New Books #Northhanger Abbey #Pride & Prejudice #Pride and Prejudice #The Late Mrs. Willoughby #The Murder of Mr. Wickham #Viking Books #Vintage

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misfit-mania-the-first · 1 month

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The actor that plays Mr. Wickham is so handsome to meeee

He’s eviiiiil but I like his face and his stupid huge sideburns

#p&p 1995 #pride and prejudice #Mr. Wickham

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firawren · 6 months

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Pride and Prejudice 1995 text posts, part 1 of ?

More: Sense and Sensibility 1995 text posts | Northanger Abbey 2007 text posts | Emma. 2020 text posts

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fancy-nancy-all-grown-up · 7 months

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girls want boys to act how they do in jane austen novels and they do—but it’s mr wickham

#pride and prejudice #jane austen #jane austen novels #romance #romance novels #mr darcy #elizabeth bennet #mr wickham #sense and sensibility #persuasion

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anghraine · 1 year

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This is unnecessarily long, but: I was just thinking about Wickham's predation on fifteen-year-old Georgiana Darcy and then, almost exactly a year later, Wickham's predation on sixteen-year-old Lydia Bennet.

There are obvious parallels between the two incidents. In fact, they're so obvious that I think the incidents are sometimes treated as equivalent, with the consequences only differing by happenstance. I don't think that's true, personally.

There are some mechanistic sort of differences—Wickham put a lot more effort and planning into the Georgiana situation. He wanted to marry her for her money and to make her brother suffer. She had to be isolated from people who would look out for her interests, he had Mrs Younge in place, he had known Georgiana as a child and was able to exploit his own previous kindness to her as her father's godson, etc.

And Georgiana, despite all of this, and despite being swept away by a teenage infatuation with an extremely attractive man, was still uncomfortable with it. She was worried about disappointing a brother who raised her and whom she deeply loves and admires. When her brother actually showed up by surprise, she decided to tell him everything; Darcy takes pains to give her credit for this. Adaptations generally downplay Georgiana's active decision-making here, but the only element of chance is Darcy deciding to go to Ramsgate at all. He insists that he was only able to act because Georgiana chose to tell him what was going on.

This isn't meant to be an indictment of Lydia, though. Does she admire the parents who raised her? No. But why would she? Especially why would she admire a father who treats her mother and sisters and herself with profound contempt and no sense of responsibility? Why would she ever confide in him?

It's not like Lydia doesn't confide in anyone. In fact, she too confides in an older sibling, her sister Kitty. And in one sense, her trust in Kitty is not undeserved. Kitty does keep the secret. Presumably, she does this because, despite her occasional annoyance with Lydia, she is very much under her influence and goes along with whatever Lydia does. Regardless, she is trustworthy in that sense. Moreover, we see at the end of the book that Kitty is easily improved by being placed in better environments and taught how to behave. She just didn't know better.

How was she going to judge Lydia's situation correctly? Who was teaching her to judge anything correctly? Certainly not their parents.

If Mr Bennet had bothered to interest himself in his younger daughters and try and influence them for the better, impressionable Kitty is probably the one who would have benefited the most. The whole Lydia/Wickham thing would have fallen apart before it went anywhere if all the girls had been been properly raised, even if Lydia did exactly the same things.

And Lydia likely wouldn't do the same things if she'd been brought up properly and, you know, treated with a baseline of respect rather than being openly mocked by her father, the person most able to affect her development. Instead, at barely sixteen, she's been continually rejected by her father, over-indulged by her mother, and flattered by adult men (28-y-o Darcy says he and Wickham are nearly the same age). And she still tells someone what's going on, even though she doesn't care about her parents' opinions or the consequences of her actions. And she was under the protection of a colonel and his wife at the time, who also could have told someone or acted, and didn't.

It's not that nobody could have done anything about the Lydia/Wickham situation. It's that nobody did until Darcy found out and tried to extract her. But it was, in one sense, too late. To Lydia, he's just some unfun acquaintance who says boring things like "go home to your family and I'll do what I can to cover for you." That is, he tries to do what he did for Georgiana.

But Lydia is not Georgiana—she did not choose to tell him about any of this. She did not want to be extracted because she didn't know and couldn't be quickly made to understand what marriage to Wickham would mean in the long term. And she didn't care what her family thought because she had no reason to, pragmatically or psychologically.

Georgiana, otoh, did care about her family's welfare and the good opinion and affection of the head of her family. But despite their radical differences in personality, the most fundamental difference between the girls IMO is that Georgiana had every reason to believe that disappointing Darcy and losing his respect would be a change from the norm.

Normally he is affectionate and attentive towards her. They write each other long letters, he defends her to other family members, and praises her frequently. Georgiana, quiet and intimidated though she may be, talks more when he's around. Disappointing him had actual stakes for her.

Put another way, the potential loss of his good opinion mattered to her because he's gone to the trouble of raising her as well as he can and forming a good relationship with her. She chose to tell Darcy the whole thing because he had earned her affection and trust in a way that Mr Bennet has utterly failed to do. Even Darcy happening to visit Georgiana at Ramsgate comes from his affection and attention to Georgiana's welfare, even if he couldn't have known what would follow from checking on his sister at that particular moment.

Chance is always part of life, and it's part of the novel and these situations. But a lot of how these scenarios wound out was not determined by chance but by long-existing patterns in these girls' educations and relationships.

#this actually spun off from a different post about the contrast between darcy and mr bennet #they're alike in some ways but it only makes the differences all the more glaring #and i don't think we see that more than in how they conduct themselves towards the young girls in their care #and in the drastic consequences of how they educate and relate to those girls #georgiana and lydia made choices but there's a point at which harping on choice!!! and personal responsibility!! doesn't have much value #and the contributing factors and context of those choices matter so much more #anghraine babbles #long post #austen blogging #austen fanwank #georgiana darcy #lydia bennet #fitzwilliam darcy #george wickham #mr bennet #catherine bennet #some unflattering references to mrs bennet but this is more of a mr bennet hate post :)

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weepynymph · 8 months

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Watch pride and prejudice again last night and it really hit me the level of restraint darcy exerts around wickham even to just be base line rude like if I saw the guy who seduced and abandoned my FIFTEEN YEAR OLD sister it would be ON SIGHT

#wickham would not survive ten seconds in my presence #the fact that only reason he doesn’t completely destroy his life is to protect georgiana’s privacy and reputation 🥺#pride and prejudice #mr darcy #mr wickham

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thoumpingground · 7 months

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So when Darcy went to fix the Lydia/Wickham situation, he first tried to get Lydia to return home, only bribing Wickham into marrying her when she wouldn't. This is sensible by modern standards, but we know from everyone else's reactions Lydia *failing* marrying Wickham would bring the Bennet family shame. Darcy knows this, and doubt he planned to leave the situation as is. So how did he originally plan to fix it?

I think Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy was gonna channel his inner Emma Woodhouse (didn't have to dig far, they're very similar people) and play matchmaker. In my headcannon Darcy checked his "Possible Husbands for Georgie" list against his "People who owe me Gargantuan favours" list and offer whoever came up money to marry Lydia.

Now, he would want to spare the Bennets of as much of the scandal as possible, and wouldn't want to take the merit in front of Lizzie, so all would most likely happen discreetly through Mr. Gardiner, while Lydia was in London, and she would move to her husbands immediatly after.

However, I wanna propose a different scenario: Lydia returns to Meryton. Scandal ensues, the Bennets are disgraced. Then, within two weeks, a random well-off man shows up intent on courting Lydia and *only* Lydia. He heeds nobodys warnings and gives no explanations. Lydia loves it. Every other mum in Meryton is furious. The Bennets are confused and paranoid. Imagine the drama. The intrige. The million questions still unawnsered long after Lydia eventually gets married and leaves. Bingley marries Jane (cause of course Darcy still told him he'd been wrong to pull them apart, and Bingley would) and Darcy's still somewhat around. Maybe him and Lizzie get together, maybe not, but every time the topic comes up he gets all sheepish and awkward and she gets suspicious and it's a thing. It's their new dynamic.

#picture a binder for “people who owe me Gatgantuan favours”#and like a few pages for “Possible husbands for Georgie” in a folder #“why would Darcy waste a good man on (ugh) Lydia?” i fear someone might ask?“#because Darcy's a good considerate person. he was trying to save her for a bad marriage in the first place.#not saying he'd give up the top pick but he wouldn't set her up with anything less than safe and decent #also as annoying as Lydia is she doesn't deserve abuse. Austen makes a point of telling us even with Wickham she's got her family's support.#also also the top pick is probably Charles and he's taken so #jane austen #mr darcy #lydia bennet #mr. gardiner #lizzie bennet #decent guy.#pride and prejudice #classic literature

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didanagy · 6 months

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Pride and prejudice (2005)

dir. joe wright

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toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account · 6 months

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just finished chapter 35 of pride & prejudice and read mr darcy's letter. mr wickham just wait until I get my fucking hands on you

#HOW DARE YOU MR. WICKHAM YOU HAD ME FOOLED #wicky. wicky when i catch you wicky. wicky when i catch you wicky. wicky when i catch you wicky. wicky when i catch you wicky. wicky when i #i should have a tag for my p&p reading #mine #pride and prejudice

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hotjaneaustenmenpoll · 2 months

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Hullo! No “Death Comes to Pemberley”? Matthew Rhys is my all-time favorite Darcy.

As Death Comes to Pemberley was set after the book I didn't put those men in (I was very tempted as I love Matthew Goode as Wickham) but here is another mini-poll

#hotjaneaustenmenpoll #sorry it took me so long to reply to this ask! I'm just trying to spread out the minipolls a bit more #lost in austen #Death Comes to Pemberley #mr wickham #mr darcy #mr bingley #james norton #matthew rhys #matthew goode #minipoll #asks

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bargainsleuthbooks · 2 years

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#TheMurderofMrWickham by #ClaudiaGray #JaneAusten #NetGalley #ARCReview #BookReview

The notorious and mean Mr. Wickham from one of Jane Austen's best works gets his comeuppance in #TheMurderofMrWickham by #ClaudiaGray #JaneAusten #NetGalley #ARCReview #BookReview #prideandprejudice #northhangerabbey #emma #senseandsensibility

“The happily married Mr. Knightley and Emma are throwing a house party, bringing together distant relatives and new acquaintances—characters beloved by Jane Austen fans. Definitely not invited is Mr. Wickham, whose latest financial scheme has netted him an even broader array of enemies. As tempers flare and secrets are revealed, it’s clear that everyone would be happier if Mr. Wickham got his…

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#Cozy Mystery #Emma #Jane Austen #Knopf Doubleday #Mr. Darcy #Mr. Knightly #Mr. Wickham #Mystery #Northhanger Abbey #Pride and Prejudice #Regency Period #Sense and Sensibility #Vintage

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kwillow · 6 months

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A perfect scoundrel.

#inspired by anon's ask pointing me to the 1980s pride and prejudice adaptation...#this is loosely referenced off a screenshot of the miniseries' Mr. Wickham #with blonde 80s bouffant replicated to the best of my abilities #i meant to draw other things yesterday but I am easily distracted by the opportunity to draw Ambroys in little outfits...#ambroys #my draws #aasimar #angel #regency #dnd oc #and so on

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