Short Fiction · Character
Lady Anne Egbert
A woman of formidable reserve whose refusal to explain herself turns a simple misunderstanding into a tangle of wounded pride and speculation.
supporting
Also known as Lady Anne, Egbert, Albert, Nan
First appearance: The Reticence of Lady Anne
As a supporting figure in Short Fiction, Lady Anne Egbert is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Sits rigidly silent in the drawing-room after a quarrel; remains unresponsive to Egbert's appeals; is later discovered to have been dead for two hours.
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Lady Anne Egbert occupies that peculiar English position where silence is read as either dignity or disdain, and she offers no clue which. Her reticence is not shyness but a kind of armor, and it frustrates the people…
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- Social confusion catalysts
- Socially overwhelmed characters
- Protagonist
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See Lady Anne Egbert in The Reticence of Lady Anne