Georgiana Lambe

Georgiana Lambe is a fictional character created by Jane Austen in her unfinished novel Sanditon. In the 2019 period drama adaptation, she was portrayed by Crystal Clarke. Miss Lambe is described in Sanditon the novel as 'half mulatto,' and a wealthy heiress who may be sickly. She is from Antigua, and her father, before passing, left Mr Sidney Parker to be her legal guardian. She is taken to Sanditon by Mrs Griffiths, along with the two Beaufort sisters. She quickly befriends Charlotte Heywood, the heroine of the story. Later it is revealed that she had a past love life with Mr Otis Molyneux, but they were separated because Sidney believed Mr Molyneux only loved Georgiana for her money. She secretly strikes up this relationship once again in Sanditon, but does not want to marry Otis because then she will lose all her money. Later in the series, Georgiana gets kidnapped to be a man's wife because Otis had mentioned her when he had debts to pay, and after she is safetly back home she breaks it off with Otis because she can't trust him anymore.