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* Agnes from ''[[David Copperfield]]'' is beautiful and good enough to get [[Purity Sue]] accusations.
* Fanny Price subverts this in [[Jane Austen]]'s ''[[Mansfield Park]]''. She is extremely gentle, passive and the doormat of pretty much everybody around her until they try to force her into marrying the man she doesn't love. Her firmness on this point makes her not quite a true lady, as her uncle spells out:
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* Also in the Austenverse, ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'''s Jane Bennet. She stubbornly believes the best of everyone, everyone loves her for her sweetness, and she's the only one with enough patience to put up with her perpetually querulous mother. But, like Fanny, in addition to being beautiful and kind, she's also intelligent, rational, and sensible.
* Elizabeth "Beth" March evolves from a [[Fragile Flower]] into this in the second part of ''[[Little Women]]'' {{spoiler|before dying.}} May have taken it after her mother, Margaret aka Marmee, who is this too after having been more [[Hot-Blooded]] in her youth - but with more emphasis in wisdom and strong will than humility and kindness.
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