Cecily Cardew

Cecily Cardew is an important character in the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. 

Cecily is an eighteen-year-old girl. She has spent her entire life in the country. Her overprotective guardian provides her with an education but keeps her isolated. She is bored by her life in the country, where she cannot meet anyone new, and she has to spend most of her time with her governess taking lessons. She does not like learning, and prefers mundane activities, such as watering flowers, even if Miss Prism argues that such utilitarian actions are not fit for someo...