Inside the story
Meet Algernon Moncrieff
Algernon Moncrieff is an idle, witty London bachelor and the nephew of Lady Bracknell. To escape social obligations, he invents an invalid friend named Bunbury, while enjoying a close and teasing friendship with Jack Worthing.
On the page
A dapper, foppish young dandy in his twenties with an elegant, languid air; carefully styled hair and a fashionable buttonhole flower, dressed in the height of 1890s West End style — cutaway coat, brightly patterned waistcoat, silk tie, and spats — the picture of a leisured metropolitan aesthete.
