Harriet has been labeled: "a philosopher in petticoats;" "one of the meanest and dullest ladies in literary history, a monument of nasty self-regard, as lacking in charm as in grandeur" a "tempestuous" "shrew;" "a female autocrat;" a "domineering, . . . perverse and selfish, invalid woman;" a "vain and vituperative, proud and petulant" masochist; "a…