Untamed & Unabashed
Welcome to Lydia’s
Bennet’s story.
If you’ve read Pride
& Prejudice, you know Lydia is the youngest of the five Bennet sisters.
Like her siblings she has little chance of making a good marriage. Still, Lydia
is not your typical heroine. She doesn’t cry over her hopeless future. She sets
about to change it, without concern to propriety or decorum. Lydia falls to the charms of Wickham when
she’s sixteen. She’s certain a marriage to the handsome fellow is the beginning
of her fabulous life. Wickham’s many failings reveal themselves in short order and
Lydia realizes she’ll have to secure a better future for them both.
Here’s a new bit of
detail from Pride & Prejudice that touches upon Lydia’s story.
In
Pride and Prejudice Wickham’s father was the steward of Darcy’s father. While
Wickham and Darcy never got along, the old Mr. Darcy thought well of Wickham.
When Wickham’s father died, the old Darcy promised to provide for Wickham when
he became of age. There was mention of a ‘living’ at the local parish when it
became available. According to Darcy, Wickham declared he had no interest in
becoming a clergyman and asked for $3,000 pounds to study law. Darcy hoped
rather than believed Wickham to be sincere, but gave him the money all the
same.
After
the money was spent, Wickham tells everyone that Darcy denied him the living
promised to him by Darcy’s father. Thus, he is forced to make his way in the
world with barely a pence to his name.
Liza’s thoughts:
Wickham might
really believe what he says. Our memories are unreliable. If he told the same story over and over, he’s
probably grown to believe it was the truth.
Elizabeth Bennet told her story in Pride and Prejudice. Now Lydia Bennet tells her side of her
whirlwind marriage to Lieutenant Wickham. The youngest of five daughters with a
pittance of a dowry and no hope for a good marriage, Lydia feared her life was
doomed from the start. She learns how to set herself apart from her sisters and
gain the attention of young men. She hones charm and flirtation to an art.
Willing to take risks, she manages to acquire a substantial dowry and marries
her beloved Wickham. Yet, her life remains on the brink until she gains the
patronage of a wealthy Duke trapped in a loveless marriage.
“Lydia was Lydia still; untamed,
unabashed, wild, noisy and fearless.”
—quote by Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
A
Unique
EXCERPT
Lydia
could not believe the turn of her fortune. She had been trying to catch
Lieutenant Wickham’s eye ever since Eliza invited him to dinner several months
ago in Longbourn. While he had always been genial, his treatment of her had
been that of an adult to an amusing child. Tonight, however, he finally saw her
as a woman.
She
was so glad she’d had spent all her dress allowance, and then some, on the
newest fashion, an off-the-shoulder gown. It displayed her ample breasts
sufficiently so no man could think her a child.
She
laughed at her cleverness when Lieutenant Wickham’s hands rested upon her bare
shoulders.
His
eyes sparkled in the moonlight. “You are so breathtaking. Try as I have, I can
deny my affection for you no longer.”
She
opened her mouth to inquire why on earth he had ever resisted, but she lost the
moment when his lips pressed upon hers calling forth passions she had hereto
never known. She forgot her question, neigh, reason entirely, when his tongue
parted her lips and drove inside her mouth.
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More About the Author
Liza O’Connor’s favorite books are
Pride & Prejudice and Douglas Adams’ four book trilogy, The Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy. Go figure…
Raised in the southern mid-section
of the U.S., Liza escaped to the East Coast once out of college. She’s worked
as a journalist, a radio DJ, a security guard, a stock broker, a strategist,
and a business solutions consultant to name a few of her many occupations. Again…go figure.
She learned to fly planes, jump out
of planes, hang-glide, kayak and scuba dive, to name of few of her ‘let’s kill
Liza’ moments. However, her favorite activity is to hike with her dog Jess
among the shaved mountains of NJ.
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