---
type: misc
title: Brighton
description: A seaside resort where the ----shire militia camps for the summer, and
  the scene of Lydia Bennet's elopement.
resource: raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt
tags:
- brighton
- militia
- meryton
timestamp: '2026-07-16T17:56:51Z'
citadel_version: 0.3.0
---

Brighton is the "gay bathing-place" where the ----shire militia regiment, previously quartered at
[Meryton](../misc/meryton.md), is encamped for the summer.[^s1] [Lydia Bennet](../persons/lydia-bennet.md)
imagines it filled with officers, picturing herself "seated beneath a tent, tenderly flirting with
at least six officers at once."[^s2] She goes there as [Colonel Forster](../persons/colonel-forster.md)'s
wife's guest and elopes from there with [George Wickham](../persons/george-wickham.md); the pair
are traced only as far as Clapham on the road to London.[^s3] Wickham is later found to have left
considerable gaming debts in Brighton, reckoned by Colonel Forster at over a thousand pounds.[^s4]

## See also

- [Meryton](../misc/meryton.md)
- [Lydia Bennet](../persons/lydia-bennet.md)
- [George Wickham](../persons/george-wickham.md)
- [Colonel Forster](../persons/colonel-forster.md)

## Sources

[^s1]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), line 8500 — the militia's move to Brighton (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s2]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 8978; 8983-8984 — Lydia's fantasy of Brighton (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s3]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 10299-10306 — the elopement traced to Clapham (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s4]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 11133-11138 — Wickham's gaming debts in Brighton (ingested 2026-07-16)
