An eighteenth-century clergyman

An eighteenth-century clergyman

In Lydia Wickham’s Northern Peril: Darcy & Wickham’s Rapprochement? Lydia has been residing at Castlegate in York with Fanny Roberts, a rich society widow, as her companion, an arrangement organised by Fanny’s friend Caroline Bingley. Within hours of Fanny’s death...
Author Devices in Pride & Prejudice

Author Devices in Pride & Prejudice

As an avid reader, I’m often struck by the fact that in many books fairly obvious devices are used to push the book along or support the plot. Some books would never be able to complete the story satisfactorily without these unlikely incidents. All authors do it to a...