Mr. Wickham

Also known as: Wickham · Family: militia · Role: officer · First appears: Chapter 15

Chapter 15

with Mr. Denny (Mr. Denny introduced Mr. Wickham to the young ladies.) 〈Mr. Denny addressed them directly, and entreated permission to introduce his friend, Mr. Wickham, who had returned with him the day before from town, and, he was happy to say, had accepted a commission in their corps.〉
with Fitzwilliam Darcy (The passage depicts an unexplained strained or hostile interaction.) 〈Mr. Wickham, after a few moments, touched his hat--a salutation which Mr. Darcy just deigned to return.〉

admired: Elizabeth Bennet 〈Mr. Wickham was the happy man towards whom almost every female eye was turned, and Elizabeth was the happy woman by whom he finally seated himself;〉
admirer: Elizabeth Bennet 〈Elizabeth went away with her head full of him. She could think of nothing but of Mr. Wickham, and of what he had told her, all the way home;〉
friends with late Mr. Darcy 〈His father, Miss Bennet, the late Mr. Darcy, was one of the best men that ever breathed, and the truest friend I ever had;〉
patron: late Mr. Darcy 〈Yes--the late Mr. Darcy bequeathed me the next presentation of the best living in his gift. He was my godfather, and excessively attached to me.〉
with Miss Darcy (Former childhood affection and companionship.) 〈As a child, she was affectionate and pleasing, and extremely fond of me; and I have devoted hours and hours to her amusement.〉

with Elizabeth Bennet (interaction) 〈Elizabeth thought with pleasure of dancing a great deal with Mr. Wickham, and of seeing a confirmation of everything in Mr. Darcy’s look and behaviour.〉
with Catherine Bennet (interaction) 〈And even Mary could assure her family that she had no disinclination for it.〉
with Lydia Bennet (interaction) 〈The happiness anticipated by Catherine and Lydia depended less on any single event, or any particular person; for though they each, like Elizabeth, meant to dance half the evening with Mr. Wickham, he was by no means the only partner who could satisfy them, and a ball was, at any rate, a ball.〉

with Elizabeth Bennet (They exchange mutual commendations.) 〈they had leisure for a full discussion of it, and for all the commendations which they civilly bestowed on each other〉

enemies with Fitzwilliam Darcy 〈The whole of what Elizabeth had already heard, his claims on Mr. Darcy, and all that he had suffered from him, was now openly acknowledged and publicly canvassed; and everybody was pleased to think how much they had always disliked Mr. Darcy before they had known anything of the matter.〉

married with Lydia Bennet 〈The day of his and Lydia’s departure soon came;〉
with Elizabeth Bennet (Elizabeth is Wickham's sister-in-law.) 〈Mr. Wickham was so perfectly satisfied with this conversation, that he never again distressed himself, or provoked his dear sister Elizabeth, by introducing the subject of it;〉

Extracted from the original text of Pride and Prejudice. Made with Rho MD.