Inside the story
Meet Gwendolen Fairfax
Gwendolen Fairfax is Lady Bracknell’s sophisticated, fashionable daughter and Algernon’s cousin in London society. Confident and quick witted, she is in love with Jack and determined to marry a man named Ernest, despite her formidable mother’s opposition.
On the page
A poised, stylish young Society woman in her early twenties with an assured, elegant bearing; her hair fashionably dressed and worn under an ornate hat, and she is costumed in refined 1890s day-wear — a fitted bodice with leg-of-mutton sleeves, a long trained skirt, gloves, and a parasol.
