# Mrs. Bridgenorth — Getting Married character guide

> Mrs. Bridgenorth in Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Mrs. George, Mrs. Bridgenorth George, Mrs. George Rising

**First appearance:** 0054-getting-married

## Snapshot

A bishop's wife who has married off the whole family and now presides over the wedding breakfast with unruffled, faintly ironic authority.

## Who they are

As hostess and mother of the bride, Mrs. Bridgenorth moves through the wedding-day bustle with the ease of a woman who has done this many times before, trading dry pleasantries with Collins while the General bolts from the cake. Marriage, she insists, came natural to her — a claim that quietly sets her apart from her unmarried sister Lesbia and from Collins's own reluctant account of being broken into it. Her composure anchors the play's opening world and makes her a steady counterweight to the guests who want to argue marriage into a theory.

## In the story

### [Domestic Change of Air](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/chapters/domestic-change-of-air)

Referenced as the lady who has been married five times, described as wise, attractive, and interesting.

### [Othello and Desdemona](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/chapters/othello-and-desdemona)

Referenced as the lady who compared lending a husband to lending a toothbrush, sparking Shaw's reflection on proprietary attitudes.

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