Untamed and Unbashed - Lydia Bennet's Story by Liza O'Connor

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, 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, Mrs. Younge was a governess hired by the wealthy Mr. Darcy to educate his younger sister, Georgiana. Instead, the woman conspired with Wickham to convince the innocent girl, with a dowry of ten thousand pounds, to elope and marry Mr. Wickham. Mr. Darcy showed up unexpectedly, his sister confessed their plans, and Darcy put a stop to the elopement…and fired Mrs. Younge without references.In Untamed & Unabashed, Wickham kept track of the lady and goes to her when he needs to hide out. Not surprisingly, Lydia hates Mrs. Younge on sight, and the feeling is mutual. Mrs. Younge sees no value in the silly chit and can’t believe Wickham found a gentleman who would pay a hundred pounds to take Lydia off their hands for an evening so they can enjoy themselves.


 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 AustenEXCERPTLydia loved everything about the theatre before the play had even begun. Perched in their private balcony, she spied on the crowd below. Everyone watched a woman, no longer in her prime, but still very beautiful, and her preening gentleman. The lady’s gown made Lydia’s look demure. She pointed the woman out to David. “Who is she?”Contempt flickered across his face. “Mary Robinson, mistress to the prince for many years.”Lydia’s eyes returned to the short preening man. “Is the man beside her the Prince of Wales?”David choked. “No. He is of no importance—a nouveau-riche merchant wishing to make a name for himself by using Mary’s connections.”“Since when is a mistress considered someone of importance? I understood them to be a dime a dozen.”David frowned and studied her as if she confounded him. “Then you do not wish to be a rich man’s mistress?”His question baffled her. “Why would a wife aspire to be a mistress?”“You are truly married to George Wickham?”“I am, and I will have my special license to prove it—just as soon as my substantial dowry is settled.”David leaned forward. “Who is your father?”“Harrison Bennet of Longbourn House in Hertfordshire.”“A country gentleman?”“Of long standing,” Lydia replied, her head lifted in pride. “Longbourn has been in our family for over a hundred years.” She sighed. “Only my silly mother bore five daughters and no sons. So when father dies, we will be tossed into the street, since the estate is entailed.” She smiled, realizing such a fate would not be hers. “Except for me, of course. I am married now and will not care two pence about the place.”

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More About the AuthorLiza 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, 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. Here are additional Historical Novels by Liza O’ConnorA Humorous Sleuth Series: The Adventures of Xavier & VicThe brilliant English Sleuth, Xavier Thorn, takes on a cheeky apprentice who turns out to be a young woman. Vic prefers to dress as a young man so she can live a more interesting life in the Late Victorian era. Overtime, Xavier makes her his partner in all ways. The Troublesome Apprentice — The greatest sleuth in Victorian England hires a young man who turns out to be a young woman. The Missing Partner — Opps! The greatest sleuth in Victorian England goes missing, leaving Vic to rescue him, a suffragette, and about 100 servants. Not to mention an eviscerating cat. Yes, let’s not mention the cat. A Right to Love — A Romantic spin off from the Adventures of Xavier & Vic. The gypsy pirate Jacko falls in love with a compromised lady of high society. The Mesmerist — The Mesmerist can control people from afar and make them murder for her. Worse yet, Xavier Thorn has fallen under her spell.
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