FHM's 100 Sexiest Women (UK) she was "overwhelmed", and added: "Any woman who says they don't like being called sexy, they're lying." By 2002, the list was attracting over five million votes – that year, Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova was number one. A further five million votes were cast the following year, when the American actress Halle Berry was named as the world's sexiest. At 36 years old, Berry was the oldest woman ever to top the list. She responded: "Wow, that's a pretty heady title. I'm not so sure I live up to it, but thank you anyway." The first British woman to
The Woman Who Did of marriage by refusing to get married herself, Victoria Crosse's heroine Eurydice Williamson—"the woman who didn't"—remains faithful to her impossible husband although, during a passage from India, she meets a man who falls in love with her. Similarly, Lovett Cameron's hero is a married man who resists the temptation to stray. Another novel written in reply to Allen's work, Lucas Cleeve's "The Woman Who Wouldn't", (1895) sold well and received hostile reviews. The author said of this: "If one young girl is kept from a loveless, mistaken marriage, if one frivolous nature is checked in her career of flirtation by