Men and women in fiction

       At his Sapping Attention weblog Ben Schmidt looks at 'Digital Humanities: Using tools from the 1990s to answer questions from the 1960s about 19th century America.' One tool is the awesome bookworm, which is a fun tool to play with, and most recently he used it to consider Canonic authors and the pronouns that they used.
       Nineteenth century authors, mainly, and only extending a bit into the twentieth (relying on out of copyright data), but still a fascinating glimpse of the ration of he to she in the work of many authors.