Live from Pemberley: Mr. Wickham and Our Poor Lydia (Chapter 46)
Hot and Bothered
Not Sorry Productions
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🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Darcy and Lizzy’s budding friendship (or is it more?) comes to an abrupt end when Lizzy gets a letter from Jane in Chapter 46 of Pride and Prejudice. Lydia and Wickham have run away together and so Lizzy and the Gardiner’s must leave immediately for Longbourn. Vanessa and Lauren discuss whether this plot point counts as a ‘kidnapping’ and whether marriage to Wickham is the best ending for Lydia.
Dr. Ellen Stockstill joins us at the end of the episode to discuss the trope of the ‘fallen woman’ in literature and how it maps onto real historical anxieties. Our next episode is March 10, covering chapters 47 + 48.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, we wanted to let you know that in partnership with the Fetzer Institute, |
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| 0:33.1 | Go to readingandwalkingwith.com. |
| 0:41.9 | Today we're talking about just one chapter, chapter 46. |
| 0:46.2 | It starts with a letter from Jane to Lizzie, well actually two letters, but Lizzie gets |
| 0:51.6 | them both at the same time because the first one was delayed. |
| 0:55.6 | And there is big, damning news in these letters. |
| 1:00.9 | Poor Lydia, as Jane refers to her, has run away from Colonel and Mrs. Forster to Scotland |
| 1:08.1 | to get married with Wickham. |
| 1:12.2 | In the first letter, Jane is worried about Lydia, but not upset. |
| 1:16.0 | It's a small scandal, but Lydia will be married soon. |
| 1:21.4 | It sucks that the marriage will be to Wickham, but Jane, ever the optimist, wants to look |
| 1:26.9 | on the bright side. |
| 1:28.8 | She says that Wickham can't actually be that bad because he clearly isn't marrying Lydia |
| 1:33.9 | for her money, but then Lizzie opens the second letter. |
| 1:39.4 | Jane tells Lizzie that this time it is bad news. |
| 1:44.0 | It seems that Lydia and Wickham were not heading for Scotland, the land of quick marriages. |
| 1:49.9 | They are hidden away, unmarried, in London, and nobody knows exactly where. |
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