---
type: Person
title: Georgiana Darcy
description: Fitzwilliam Darcy's younger sister, a highly accomplished teenager living
  in London.
resource: raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt
tags:
- pemberley
- derbyshire
- gentry
timestamp: '2026-07-16T18:15:29Z'
citadel_version: 0.3.0
---

Georgiana is the younger sister of [Fitzwilliam Darcy](../persons/fitzwilliam-darcy.md).[^s1]
According to [George Wickham](../persons/george-wickham.md), who knew her as a child, she is "a
handsome girl, about fifteen or sixteen," "highly accomplished," and was "affectionate and
pleasing, and extremely fond of me" growing up, but he now considers her "too much like her
brother — very, very proud."[^s2] Since her father's death her home has been London, where a lady
lives with her and superintends her education.[^s2] While Darcy writes to Georgiana at Netherfield,
[Caroline Bingley](../persons/caroline-bingley.md) praises her "improvement on the harp" and a
"beautiful little design for a table."[^s3] In a later letter to Jane Bennet, Caroline writes that
Georgiana has no equal "for beauty, elegance, and accomplishments," and hopes she will one day
marry [Charles Bingley](../persons/charles-bingley.md).[^s4]

According to Darcy's letter to Elizabeth, Georgiana is left by their father's will to the joint
guardianship of Darcy and their cousin [Colonel Fitzwilliam](../persons/colonel-fitzwilliam.md).[^s5]
Last summer, aged fifteen, she was taken to Ramsgate by a companion, Mrs. Younge, where Wickham —
acting in concert with Mrs. Younge — recommended himself to her using her childhood fondness for
him, and persuaded her to agree to elope with him for her thirty-thousand-pound fortune; Darcy
arrived unexpectedly and Georgiana, unable to bear deceiving a brother she looked up to "as a
father," confessed the plan to him before it could take place.[^s6] (See the CONTRADICTION on
[George Wickham](../persons/george-wickham.md)'s page for how this account bears on Wickham's own
version of his history with the Darcy family.)

Meeting Elizabeth at Pemberley and later at the inn in Lambton, Georgiana is "tall, and on a larger
scale than Elizabeth," her figure and manner "womanly and graceful"; Elizabeth, who had been told
Georgiana was proud, finds her instead "only exceedingly shy," saying scarcely a word.[^s7] The
housekeeper Mrs. Reynolds calls her "the handsomest young lady that ever was seen" and reports that
she "plays and sings all day long."[^s8] When [Caroline Bingley](../persons/caroline-bingley.md)
needles Elizabeth with a remark about the departed ----shire militia, Georgiana — who alone among
the party knows of the Ramsgate affair — is "overcome with confusion, and unable to lift up her
eyes."[^s9]

At the time of Darcy's proposal to Elizabeth, Georgiana remains at
[Pemberley](../misc/pemberley.md) until Christmas, with a Mrs. Annesley as her companion.[^s10] On
learning of her brother's engagement, her joy is as sincere as his: "Four sides of paper were
insufficient to contain all her delight."[^s11] After the marriage, Pemberley becomes Georgiana's
permanent home, and she and Elizabeth grow into the close sisterly bond Darcy had hoped for;
Georgiana, who had always regarded her brother with a respect "which almost overcame her affection,"
learns from Elizabeth's teasing manner with him that "a woman may take liberties with her husband,
which a brother will not always allow."[^s12]

## See also

- [Fitzwilliam Darcy](../persons/fitzwilliam-darcy.md)
- [George Wickham](../persons/george-wickham.md)
- [Caroline Bingley](../persons/caroline-bingley.md)
- [Colonel Fitzwilliam](../persons/colonel-fitzwilliam.md)
- [Elizabeth Bennet](../persons/elizabeth-bennet.md)

## Sources

[^s1]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 3762-3765 — Georgiana identified as Darcy's sister (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s2]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 3708-3717 — Wickham's account of Georgiana, attributed to Wickham (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s3]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 2416-2419 — Caroline Bingley's praise of Georgiana's harp playing and table design (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s4]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 5016-5022 — Caroline Bingley's letter hoping for a match with Charles (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s5]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 7908-7910 — Georgiana's joint guardianship, per Darcy's letter (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s6]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 7910-7930 — the Ramsgate elopement plot, per Darcy's letter (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s7]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 9861-9865; 9856-9858 — Georgiana's appearance and shyness at their meeting (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s8]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 9412-9414 — Mrs. Reynolds on Georgiana's looks and accomplishment (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s9]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 10140-10150 — Georgiana's distress at Miss Bingley's remark (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s10]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 12751-12756 — Georgiana remaining at Pemberley with Mrs. Annesley (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s11]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 14348-14351 — Georgiana's joy at the engagement (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s12]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 14489-14499 — Georgiana and Elizabeth's sisterly bond at Pemberley (ingested 2026-07-16)
