I actually love Ivanhoe and Rebecca of Ivanhoe, tragically exotic Oriental beauty that she is. She's a hell of a character, though. "Oh, you say you'll kill me if I won't yield? Fine, I will just THROW MYSELF OUT THIS WINDOW and save you the trouble. Hah, called your bluff!"

One thing about the comely Jewess in that Maria Edgeworth book I read recently, she wasn't exoticized in quite the same way! Of course this is probably because she was not only an American but a SECRET CHRISTIAN, but.

(Well, Egypt! And didn't we get in a fight with Libya too at some point? Everything east and south of that is probably fine, though. And South America is cool! But everywhere in Europe is right out.)