The Bank of England's Britannia

The Bank of England is feminised in the late 17th and early 18th century. This relates to a cartoon that was published in 1797 related to the suspension of the exchange of banknotes for gold. So we have Lady Credit who represents Credit and she's Lady Credit because Credit is fickle. The South Sea Company was also feminised particularly in the wake of the South Sea bubble and she was feminised in quite problematic ways. But the Bank of England's Britannia tends to avoid all of those connotations.