"I have sometimes thought," said Catherine, doubtingly, "whether ladies do write so much better letters than gentelmen! That is--I should not think the superiority was always on our side."-----"As far as I have had opportunity of judging, it appears to me that the usual style of letter-writing among women is faultless, except in three particulars."
-----"And what are they?"
-----"A general deficiency of subject, a total inattention to stops, and a very frequent ignorance of grammar."
-Catherine Morland and Henry Tilney, Northanger Abbey, 1818
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