Interestingly, Sir James seems to want to marry Frederica primarily because of her relationship to Lady Susan as Lady Susan’s friend Alicia tells her, Sir James would gladly marry either of them. Lady Susan and Frederica both dislike Sir James in a letter to Reginald De Courcy, Frederica calls Sir James “silly and impertinent and disagreeable,” and she strives throughout the novella to end their engagement. At the time, he was engaged to Miss Manwaring, but he was soon seduced by Lady Susan, who hoped to secure him as a husband for her daughter, Frederica.
Sir James Martin is a rich, but “contemptibly weak” man who met Lady Susan while she was staying with Mr.
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