# Lady Plymdale — Lady Windermere’s Fan character guide

> Lady Plymdale in Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Lady Plymdale Lord Windermere, Lady Plymdale To Mr. Dumby

**First appearance:** 0004-act-i

## Snapshot

A fashionable gossip whose sharp eyes miss nothing and whose whispered observations about Mrs. Erlynne and Lord Windermere threaten to expose secrets before the play's first act is over.

## Who they are

Lady Plymdale belongs to that stratum of London society where reputation is currency and information is power. She watches Mrs. Erlynne's arrival at Lady Windermere's party with the predatory attention of someone who has already begun calculating what the newcomer's presence might mean. Her readiness to gossip about Lord Windermere's mysterious visitor makes her a quiet threat to the careful deceptions the plot depends upon, and a reminder that in Wilde's world, private lives are always public property.

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