Carolyn Wells 
In the Onyx Lobby [EPUB ebook] 

‘Well, by the Great Catamaran! I think it’s the most footle business I ever heard of! A regulation, clinker-built, angle-iron, sunk-hinge family feud, carried on by two women! Women! conducting a feud! They might as well conduct a bakery!’
‘I daresay they could do even that! Women have been known to bake—with a fair degree of success!’