V-2nd - 7: Victoria Wren, late of Lardwick-in-the-Fen

[kelber at mindspring.com]

OK, we meet Victoria Wren again, wiser after her affair with Goodfellow.  Here's something I hadn't noticed in Chapter 3 during the first go-round:

p. 63 (Harper Perennial):  "The peer's [Alistair Wren's] wife - Victoria - was meanwhile being blackmailed by Bongo-Shaftsbury, who knew of her own secret anarchist sympathies."

A few sentences later:

"Bongo-Shaftsbury's avenue of approach would be through the glamorous actress, Victoria, Wren's mistress, posing as his wife to satisfy the English fetish of respectability."  

Later, we meet Wren's naive 18-year-old daughter Victoria, who has the fling with Goodfellow and resurfaces in Chapter 7.

Are these three different women?  Two?  One?  What's Pynchon doing here?  Suggesting that these Victoria's aren't human, but some sort of robot that can be issued as needed?  Or one very devious spy playing wife, glamorous actress/mistress/, and naive daughter?

Thoughts, anyone?

Laura