Wickham: With pride not prejudice

by Philip Roe

In 1812, Jane Austen meets the young wife of a prosperous northern landowner and fictionalises her life in her famous classic, Pride and Prejudice. Later, Waterloo veteran, Col George Huntingdon, recognises his own thinly disguised portrait as the rascally Mr Wickham,seducer of Elizabeth Bennet’s teenage sister, Lydia . Determined to set the record straight, Huntingdon recounts the true account of the life of ‘George Wickham’, a story which takes us from lovers’ hideway to the criminal rookery of St Giles, from satanic mill to Marylebone brothel, from smuggler’s cove to Newgate prison.

399 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 19, 2018