Thinking about Great Women and Heroines (and writing using capitals)

There are some really interesting posts around the traps right now due to women's history month. Sometimes it's the ones that make a brief note of something and have a picture (for instance, this one) that get me thinking.

Our heroic women tend to be beautiful, don't they? Or glamorous? There's always some sort of description of their looks or their clothes or their poise. No wonder the Mitford sisters tangled their lives in such interesting ways. They were being heroes. Beautiful and ch...