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What WAS She Thinking? A Pride & Prejudice Vignette
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December 31, 2020
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. ~ Will Durant
Quote from the story: The last thing she had done before leaving her bedroom at Longbourn was to arrange her childhood dollies neatly on her bed.
Now, Lydia is in an uncomfortable old coach with her dashing Lieutenant – who doesn’t oblige her by wearing his regimentals. And he won't even let her call him "Wicky".
Her childhood disappears along with her virginity – in that dirty old carriage.
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~ Winnie the Pooh
Lydia was never a deep thinker and in the course of the story, her powers of reason suffer setback after setback. She is Wickham’s dupe.
Mature Rating
This is a one-shot unpublished story available here:
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Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory. ~ G. Behn
Quote from the story: The last thing she had done before leaving her bedroom at Longbourn was to arrange her childhood dollies neatly on her bed.
Now, Lydia is in an uncomfortable old coach with her dashing Lieutenant – who doesn’t oblige her by wearing his regimentals. And he won't even let her call him "Wicky".
Her childhood disappears along with her virginity – in that dirty old carriage.
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~ Winnie the Pooh
Lydia was never a deep thinker and in the course of the story, her powers of reason suffer setback after setback. She is Wickham’s dupe.
Mature Rating
This is a one-shot unpublished story available here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13048644...
Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory. ~ G. Behn
August 30, 2018
The question in the title is answered in this sobering vignette. It's in the category of a missing section of Pride and Prejudice. Written from Lydia's point of view, it describes all her immature thoughts, observations and actions as she travels in a beat-up carriage out of Ramsgate with George ("don't call me Wicky") Wickham and then during the weeks in London before Mr. Darcy finds them.
The more delighted she sounds, the more sad it is to the reader. Emotionally and intellectually, Lydia is truly just a child pretending to be grown up--as she perceives it--without any practical consideration of the consequences. It's hard to read how this naive child is manipulated into giving up her virginity without the slightest clue that Wickham is just toying with her. She persists in this delusion for weeks, either unwilling or unable to recognize the truth of her situation.
The writing feels realistic and filled with irony. Poor Lydia. As selfish and narcissistic as she is, you can't help but shudder for her future with this amoral man. Excellent short one-shot.
For Mature Readers.
The more delighted she sounds, the more sad it is to the reader. Emotionally and intellectually, Lydia is truly just a child pretending to be grown up--as she perceives it--without any practical consideration of the consequences. It's hard to read how this naive child is manipulated into giving up her virginity without the slightest clue that Wickham is just toying with her. She persists in this delusion for weeks, either unwilling or unable to recognize the truth of her situation.
The writing feels realistic and filled with irony. Poor Lydia. As selfish and narcissistic as she is, you can't help but shudder for her future with this amoral man. Excellent short one-shot.
For Mature Readers.
June 15, 2021
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13048644...
Short one-shot: Rating: MA: mature audience: sexually explicit and graphic… It’s Lydia and Wickham after all… you know what to expect?
“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.” –Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue
This one chapter short dealt with Wickham’s elopement with Lydia. It was sad because we know who Wickham really was and could see his behavior, words, and actions in a different light and from a different perspective. Bless her heart. She was so foolish and naïve that she had no idea what she was really doing. She saw everything through rose-colored glasses and for her, the glass was always half-full. Her optimism was ridiculous to the point she wasn’t too concerned when they stopped in London instead of heading for the Scottish border. She just knew they would marry sooner or later. She was enjoying herself way too much as they practiced for wedlock and their marriage bed. Then, there was a knock at their door.
1st read: 9-6-18
2nd read: 9-12-19
3rd read: 6-14-21
Short one-shot: Rating: MA: mature audience: sexually explicit and graphic… It’s Lydia and Wickham after all… you know what to expect?
“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.” –Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue
This one chapter short dealt with Wickham’s elopement with Lydia. It was sad because we know who Wickham really was and could see his behavior, words, and actions in a different light and from a different perspective. Bless her heart. She was so foolish and naïve that she had no idea what she was really doing. She saw everything through rose-colored glasses and for her, the glass was always half-full. Her optimism was ridiculous to the point she wasn’t too concerned when they stopped in London instead of heading for the Scottish border. She just knew they would marry sooner or later. She was enjoying herself way too much as they practiced for wedlock and their marriage bed. Then, there was a knock at their door.
1st read: 9-6-18
2nd read: 9-12-19
3rd read: 6-14-21
September 6, 2018
3.5 stars
One shot: Lydia's POV as she elopes, loses her virginity in a coach and idles away time practicing for marriage while Wickham seeks to "find a man who owes him money".
One shot: Lydia's POV as she elopes, loses her virginity in a coach and idles away time practicing for marriage while Wickham seeks to "find a man who owes him money".
August 30, 2018
A story with explicit language as 20 something George Wickham tricks and drugs (with Alcohol) a 15 year old child, Lydia Bennet, into sex with a promise of marriage he has no intention of keeping.
This short story made me think of something. "What made Wickham so certain that someone, Darcy or Bennet or Gardiner, would pay for him to marry Lydia." He seems to have had his finger on the pulse of who had money in Meryton and he had to know the Bennets were pretty freaking poor (gentry wise), plus he had to know about the entail and Mr. Collins being the heir. Now his elopement with Lydia has to be before Lizzy and the Gardiners visit to Pemberley so he can't think that Darcy would ever learn of the act.
This short story made me think of something. "What made Wickham so certain that someone, Darcy or Bennet or Gardiner, would pay for him to marry Lydia." He seems to have had his finger on the pulse of who had money in Meryton and he had to know the Bennets were pretty freaking poor (gentry wise), plus he had to know about the entail and Mr. Collins being the heir. Now his elopement with Lydia has to be before Lizzy and the Gardiners visit to Pemberley so he can't think that Darcy would ever learn of the act.
August 30, 2018
For mature audiences
Poor, stupid, naive Lydia. I also blame her parents for not teaching her to know better.
Poor, stupid, naive Lydia. I also blame her parents for not teaching her to know better.
December 11, 2020
Poor deluded Lydia.
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