Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer – both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
– Bram Stoker
Dracula, Chapter 18. Van Helsing says this about Mina’s involvement with the work they are doing to rid the world of the evil of Dracula. This is the typical Victorian – especially male – view of women as fragile creatures and men the authority figures.