Zoë Marriott’s Reviews > Gaudy Night > Status Update

Reading this again, I'm struck by how terriby *catty* Harriet Vane is. Descriptions of her fellow graduates:

"...face like the back of a cab... tightly corseted peroxide of sixty...plain...curious little creature dressed in unbecoming pink...tall, haggard, tragedy queen... bony..."

To paraphrase, she never looks at another woman except to find fault!