Lady Windermere's Fan

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 wifes birthday ball. Angered by her husbands 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 Windermeres mother who abandoned her family twenty years before the time the play is set. Mrs. Erlynne sacrifices herself and her reputation to save her daughters marriage.