также:

The struggle between the revolutionary and the moderate tendencies was expressed in the ranks of the women in a very acute form. Olympe de Gouges (1748-93) was typical of the Girondin feminists. Born Marie Gouges, the illegitimate daughter of a nobleman and a butcher's wife from Montauban in southern France, she rebelled against the narrowness of provincial life and the way her father had treated her mother. After an unhappy marriage, she ran away to Paris, changed her name and went on the stage. Typical of the type of middle class woman who was inspired by the Revolution, without ever really grasping its essence, she took to writing plays and pamphlets, calling for the abolition of the slave trade, public workshops for the unemployed (an idea later adopted by the reformist socialist Louis Blanc) and a national theatre for women. In 1791 she published the Declaration of the Rights of Women, an answer to the Assembly's Declaration of the Rights of Man.

There is much that is of interest in this document, with its stiring appeal to women: "Woman, wake up; the tocsin of reason is being heard throughout the whole universe; discover your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudice, fanaticism, superstition, and lies. The flame of truth has dispersed all the clouds of folly and usurpation. Enslaved man has multiplied his strength and needs recourse to yours to break his chains. Having become free, he has become unjust to his companion. Oh, women, women! When will you cease to be blind?"

также Война и Мир:

And with a Frenchman's easy and naive frankness the captain told Pierre the story of his ancestors, his childhood, youth, and manhood, and all about his relations and his financial and family affairs, "ma pauvre mere" playing of course an important part in the story.

"But all that is only life's setting, the real thing is love- love! Am I not right, Monsieur Pierre?" said he, growing animated. "Another glass?"

Pierre again emptied his glass and poured himself out a third.

"Oh, women, women!" and the captain, looking with glistening eyes at Pierre, began talking of love and of his love affairs.

Откуда такие странные сведения? Например, Флоренс Крей описывается так: "tall and willowy with a terrific profile and luxuriant platinum-blonde hair; the sort of girl who might, as far as looks were concerned, have been the star unit of the harem of one of the better-class Sultans". Роберту Уикхем часто характеризуют как "one-girl beauty chorus". И М.Бассет с глазами... Да что заниматься разысканиями - почти все знакомые Берти девушки in the pin-up class. А одна такая Мейбл очаровала и Дживса, так что о чем говорить!

Если же Вы их классифицируете не в смысле внешности, а по душевным качествам - Берти через слово поминает my good and deserving Aunt Dahlia. Quorn trains its daughters well, as does Pytchley. :)