TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilde, Oscar
AU  - Sriraman, T., Ed.
TI  - Lady Windermere's fan
T2  - Macmillan's Annotated Classics
SN  - 0333920708
U1  - 822.8 
PY  - 1988///
CY  - Chennai
PB  - Macmillan
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - England
KW  - Radio plays
KW  - Radio adaptations
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Aristocracy (Social class)
KW  - Manners and customs
N2  - 
The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. She confronts him with it but although he denies it, he invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball. Angered by her husband's supposed unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband for another lover. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts to persuade her to return to her husband and in the course of this, Mrs Erlynne is discovered in a compromising position. It is then revealed Mrs Erlynne is Lady Windermere's mother, who abandoned her family twenty years before the time the play is set. Mrs Erlynne sacrifices herself and her reputation to save her daughter's marriage. The best known line of the play sums up the central theme

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