Sex Comes to Pemberley: 'Pride and Prejudice' Re-visited

Sex Comes to Pemberley moves from innocence to experience. Kitty's girlish fantasies about her dream-husband, Wickham, are shattered by a letter from Lydia, which gives a vivid account of her seduction in a seedy London inn. Contrary Mary cynically observes how the Bennet's family life is dominated by the Georgian marriage market and then reveals how she came to lose her own virginity before deciding to devote herself to the life of a writer. After the novella's central chapter in which lov...