Location
Commons
Start Date
10-10-2013 9:00 AM
End Date
10-12-2013 4:45 PM
Description
The author discusses the impact of gambling in Pride and Prejudice by focusing on the gambling habits of Mr. Wickham. The author compares the character of Mr. Wickham to "Hazard," another gambler who is down "stripped...of his last half-crown," in Laurie and Whittle's poem Speculation; or A New Way of Saving a Thousand Pounds.
Repository Citation
Hinders, Chelcie, ""The Vicious Propensities": The Impact of Gambling in Pride and Prejudice" (2013). Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial. 6.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/celia_pride/preconference/posters/6
"The Vicious Propensities": The Impact of Gambling in Pride and Prejudice
Commons
The author discusses the impact of gambling in Pride and Prejudice by focusing on the gambling habits of Mr. Wickham. The author compares the character of Mr. Wickham to "Hazard," another gambler who is down "stripped...of his last half-crown," in Laurie and Whittle's poem Speculation; or A New Way of Saving a Thousand Pounds.
