Mrs. Wickham was the wife of Mr. Wickham, the steward of Pemberley, and the mother of George Wickham. She was so extravagant her husband would not have been able to provide a gentleman's education for their son, if their patron (and George's godfather) Mr. Darcy had not paid for it himself.[1] She is said to have been dead, like her husband, "many years" before her son elopes with Lydia Bennet.[2]
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- ↑ Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 35
- ↑ Austen, Pride and Prejudice: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism, edited by Donald J. Gray (New York: Norton, 2001), 192 (ch. 48).