Mary Crawford kommt in Jane Austens Mansfield Park ziemlich schlecht weg, aber dafür schreibt sie recht witzige Briefe:

"..From all that I hear and guess, Baron Wildenheim's attentions to Julia continue, but I do not know that he has any serious encouragement. She ought to do better.
A poor honourable is no catch, and I cannot imagine any liking in the case, for take away his rants, and the poor baron has nothing. What a difference a vowel makes!
If his rents were but equal to his rants! .."

(Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park", 1814)