ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Travels and elopement Later, the Bennet family receives a letter from Colonel Forster that Lydia and Wickham have eloped to Gretna Green. However, Colonel Forster later finds out that Wickham was running away to avoid his gambling debts, and led Lydia to believe they were going to Gretna.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wickham wanted to find an easy way to escape his debts, while 15-year-old Lydia craved romance and excitement. Wickham informed the Bennets that he was ready to marry Lydia if her family paid off his debts. Elizabeth knew about Wickham’s affair with Georgiana.

Detailed explanation-3: -When Elizabeth returns to her inn, she finds two letters from Jane: the first relates that Lydia has eloped with Wickham, the second that there is no word from the couple and that they may not be married yet.

Detailed explanation-4: -While Lydia’s affair with Wickham was highly improper for a nineteenth-century woman, threatening damage to both herself and her sisters, a premarital sexual relationship would be considered normal for most young women in the West in the twenty-first century.