Cecily Cardew

Jack’s pupil, the granddaughter of the elder gentleman who found and adopted Jack when he was a baby. Cecily is the most idealistic and dreamy character in the novel. She is a child of nature. However, her ingenuity is belied by her fascination with wickedness. She is obsessed with the name Ernest too, just as Gwendolen is, but wickedness is primarily what leads her to fall in love with Algernon, whose reputation is wayward enough to intrigue her. She is a fantasist. She has invented her romance with Ernest since she heard about him. Though she does not have an alter-ego as vivid or developed as Bunbury or Ernest, her claim that she and Algernon/Earnest are already engaged is rooted in the fantasy world she’s created around Ernest.


Lady Bracknell