“She introduced him to everybody as Wickham.” (60)

In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Wickham is a seedy sort of character. Under the guise of love, runs away with the youngest Bennett girl with no intent of marrying her – deception being only one on his list of less-than-ideal character traits. Woolf makes this allusion to compare Clarissa’s husband to Austen’s character, which is unpromising given what anyone who has read Pride and Prejudice knows of Mr. Wickham’s relationships with women.

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"SparkNotes: Pride and Prejudice." SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides. Web. 30 Sept. 2009. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/pride/.