 Complete the following phrase:  As a young woman she evinced a certain tomboyishness. A phrase reproduced in several sources indicates that she often violated the conventions of her time: she rode like the devil, shot with pistol, on holiday in 1841 swam in the sea off Helgoland, smoked, and took an interest in gymnastics. When she was thirteen her political consciousness was engaged by the 1830 French revolution, and slightly closer to home, two years later, the Hambach Festival. She also drew inspiration from the 