From the point of view of the history of women, there were articles by Yang Buwei, wife of Zhao Yuanren, by Shen Yiyun, the wife of Huang Yingbai, and by the famous socialites Lu Xiaoman and Sai Jinhua. These carry detailed descriptions of the lives, education, thinking, and social status of women at that time, and provide firsthand materials for the study of the history of Chinese women.
而從婦女史的角度來說，諸如語言學者趙元任夫人楊步偉、黃膺白夫人沈亦雲等，社交名媛陸小曼、賽金花等的回憶中，對民初的婦女生活、教育、思想、社會地位都有詳盡描述，是中國婦女史的一手資料。