# Little Victoria Dare — Democracy character guide

> Little Victoria Dare in Democracy by Henry Adams.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Victoria, Victoria Dare, Miss Dare

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

A remorseless Washington flirt who cares nothing for the men she dazzles, Victoria Dare finds her chief happiness in violating rules and mocking the world, herself included.

## Who they are

Victoria belongs to the young society set that orbits Sybil and Madeleine, and she treats Lord Dunbeg's courtship as a laboratory for impudence, demanding to know how Countesses are selected and cheerfully informing him that General Washington was a rawboned, profane, tipsy country farmer. She seems devoted to men while caring nothing about them, and her monotonous voice never rises even as her inventions grow wilder. Her gleeful irreverence punctures the solemnities of both English nobility and American piety, making her the novel's sharpest instrument of social satire.

## In the story

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_se/chapters/vi)

Playfully teases Lord Dunbeg with absurd remarks about sundials and the Burlington Hawkeye, and later jokes about being Martha Washington.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_se/chapters/ix)

Mentioned by Sybil as someone who urges her to do something about Madeleine's involvement with Ratcliffe.

### [X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_se/chapters/x)

Mentioned as Sybil's friend whom she visits.

### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_se/chapters/xi)

Observes the proposal, alerts Sybil, and announces her engagement to Lord Dunbeg.

### [Conclusion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_se/chapters/conclusion)

Engaged to Lord Dunbeg; writes to Sybil about Washington gossip.

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