# Lady Flumm — Passages from the Life of a Philosopher character guide

> Lady Flumm in Passages from the Life of a Philosopher by Charles Babbage.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Lady Flumm, Lady Flumm Smiling, Lady Flumm Oh

**First appearance:** 0040-xxii-scene-from-a-new-afterpiece-called-politics-and-poetry-or-the-decline-of-science

## Snapshot

A drawing-room enchantress who quotes Turnstile's prettiest phrases, arranges musicales, and will absolutely take no excuse.

## Who they are

Lady Flumm presides over the play's most delicious scene, greeting Turnstile as a marvel, reciting his purple passages, and gently touching his arm until he cannot refuse her Thursday party. Her charm is genuine and her tactics transparent: she knows exactly how to flatter a man of science who secretly enjoys being admired for style rather than mathematics. She matters because she makes visible the seduction of fashionable society, the pull that leaves Turnstile wondering what Shoreditch will say.

## Relationships

### [Lord Flumm](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/passages_from_the_life_of_a_philosopher_se/characters/lord_flumm)

_family_

Lady Flumm and Lord Flumm are married, forming a central family unit in the social hierarchy.

## In the story

### [Act I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/passages_from_the_life_of_a_philosopher_se/chapters/act-i)

Lord Flumm's wife, who charms Turnstile with praise of his book and invites him to her party.

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