Eight Cousins/YMMV

• Fair for Its Day: Alec bans corsets and patent medicines, encourages Rose to get fresh air and exercise, teaches her human biology and shows her how to manage her own accounts. Phebe grows up to earn her own living as a choir singer (even though she does give it up to marry Archie) and is treated as an equal by Rose, Alec and the boys (if not the aunts). By 19th-century standards, that's quite modern.
• Values Dissonance: Fun See, nicknamed Mr. Tokio (You Fail Geography Forever), is described as a walking Fu Manchu cliché, and Rose herself refers to him as "a heathen Chinese".