An Ideal Husband · Character
Mabel Chiltern
Sir Robert's pert, pretty younger sister, who trades barbs with Lord Goring and refuses to take him seriously until it matters.
supporting
Also known as Mabel, Miss Mabel, Miss Chiltern, that pretty Miss Chiltern, Mabel Chiltern Dear Gertrude, Mabel Chiltern Gertrude, Mabel Chiltern Dear, Mabel Chiltern Tommy, Mabel Chiltern Tommy Trafford, Mabel Chiltern Gravely, Mabel Chiltern Looking, Mabel Chiltern Severely, Mabel Chiltern Lord Goring
First appearance: an ideal husband
As a supporting figure in An Ideal Husband, Mabel Chiltern is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
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Mabel Chiltern is the play's freshest voice, a young woman who declares London society composed of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics and means it as praise. She teases Lord Goring about broken appointments in the…
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- Romantic
- Other
Character groups
- Peripheral society and family
- Central characters in scandal
- Protagonist
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Story tension across the book.
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- Breaking point
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romantic · positive
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