On Bridgerton Series: Is Lady Featherington a Good Mother?

 

      Photo source: Screen grabbed from Bridgerton Season 2/Netflix

 

Lady Portia Featherington is an iconic ambitious Ton momma. She is infamous to the Bridgerton fans because of her hard work in securing her daughters’ future through her ingenious schemes of putting them into a scandal with a bachelor she prefers. Lady Featherington is scared of a poor life that’s why she works harder to keep her family afloat after discovering that they are “broke” because of her husband’s gambling problems that even their daughters’ dowries were ventured away.

Every mother knows and wants the best for her children, especially for their daughter/s. Ton mommas indeed push for marrying off their daughters to a man with enormous wealth and good title. Lady Featherington is after the security of their status in their fashionable society.

So, is Lady Featherington a good momma?

 

Or I suppose, the question should be: Is Lady Featherington an ethical momma?

 

Okay, let’s face the fact that she resorts to plotting one of her daughter’s scandals by compromising a gentleman who can preserve their status through marriage, but isn’t it a bit evil? A mother may not be perfect, but she must be lesser evil. She has done these for their family.

Lady Featherington loves her daughters so much that she cannot afford to see them a spinster in their lifetime. Their society is unkind to unmarried women especially if from an unprivileged class. As a mother, she needs to ensure that her daughters are well-married. Her daughters are her treasure as she had always looked after them.

Lady Featherington is one of the surprising characters in the second season of Bridgerton. The decision she took for her daughters’ plight was remarkably well-thought.

Bridgerton fans are trying to judge whether Lady Featherington is a good momma or not.

 

Perhaps, Lady Featherington is being a mother in a way she knows best and how.

 

I’m not a mother, but after watching Bridgerton Season 2, I was also left pondering if Lady Featherington is indeed a good momma. I cannot wholly judge her because it is not my place to do so.

  

If anyone who has read this post is a mother and has watched the Bridgerton series, or if you are a Bridgerton fan and Lady Featherington got into your nerves, I'm interested to know your thoughts on this.