Heroine Collection

Grace Darling, rowing with her father
Grace Horsley Darling (1815 - 1842), daughter of the lighthouse keeper, William Darling, on the Farne Islands, seen here rowing with her father to the sinking steamboat the SS Forfarshire in 1838

Vivien Leigh on front cover of The Tatler
Vivien Leigh pictured on the front cover of The Tatler wearing a magnificent ball gown of black satin, velvet and taffeta designed by Cecil Beaton for her film role of Anna Karenina

Flora MacDonald, Scottish Jacobite heroine, friend and helper of Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie)

Cymbeline - title page - Iachimo emerges from the trunk as Imogen sleeps. 1862

Joan of Arc - French heroines home at Domremy, France
Joan of Arc - French heroines home/birthplace (on 12th January 1412) at Domremy-la-Pucelle, Vosges, Lorraine, France and a statue of her. Date: circa 1910s

St Joan by Pauline Baynes
Joan of Arc (1412? - 1431), or Jeanne d Arc, French heroine, painted by Pauline Baynes in full armour riding a steed and carrying a standard with the fleur de lys

Scene from Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice
A scene from Shakespeares comedy, The Merchant of Venice, with Portia and other characters

Grace Darling, lighthouse keeper's daughter
Grace Horsley Darling (1815 - 1842), daughter of the lighthouse keeper, William Darling, on the Farne Islands, who rowed with her father to the sinking steamboat the SS Forfarshire in 1838

Peggy Prince received an M.B.E. after making two journeys out to sea in a canoe in order to rescue the crew of a crashed bomber, saving the wireless operators life. 1940

Molly Pitcher. The Heroine of Monmouth
The Heroine of Monmouth. Molly Pitcher, the wife of a Gunner in the American Army, who when her husband was killed, took his place at the gun

Annie Lauries Home
ANNIE LAURIE Maxwelton House, Dumfries- shire, Scotland, the birthplace of Annie Laurie in 1682, after whom a famous Scottish ballad was named

Joan the Maid - Kay Nielsen. The Most Noble Warrior Saint in the Christian Calendar. Date: 1924

John Farleigh Woodcuts for Shaw s
John Farleighs Woodcuts for George Bernard Shaws " The Adventures of The Black Girl in her search for God." 1932

Joan of Arc / Buttre
JOAN OF ARC French heroine in armour on the battlefield

Iovanovitch / Serb Heroine
Sophia Ivanovich volunteers to serve in the Serbian army so long as hostilities against the Turks persist : she is engaged to marry the gentleman behind her

Miranda in The Tempest by William Shakespeare, at the Opera House, Southport, 9 October 1905 for one week, Herbert Beerbohm Trees production which opened at His Majestys Theatre on 14 September 1904

Khiuaz Dospanova, Khazak pilot and national heroine
Khiuaz Dospanova (1922-2008), Khazak pilot who served during the Second World War, in the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, nicknamed the Night Witches

Agnes Reston (1771-1856), known as The Heroine of Matagorda, wife of Sergeant Reston of the 94th Regiment of Foot. In 1810, during an early phase of the Siege of Cadiz by the French

Saint Joan the Maid by Kay Nielsen. How Joan the Maid of Lorraine saw visions and was called upon to deliver France... Date: 1920

Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies in Tess of the D Urbervilles, based on the novel by Thomas Hardy, at the Barnes Theatre, Richmond, SW London. 1925

Lily Brayton as Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew
Lily Brayton as Katharina in Shakespeares comedy, The Taming of the Shrew at the Kings Theatre, Hammersmith, West London, with Oscar Asche. The couple were also performing in Othello. 1900s

WW1 - Return of the body of Heroine Nurse Edith Cavell into Dover Harbour on the R class destroyer HMS Rowena on 14th May 1919. Date: 1919

Trawler Heroine, Royal Naval Exhibition of 1891 in London

Royal Naval Exhibition 1891 - the trawler Heroine

Darners, The Flora MacDonald Needle Packet

Miss Smith, heroine of seige of Legation Quarter, Peking
Miss Smith, heroine of the seige of the Legation Quarter, Peking, China

Grace Darling Victorian Heroine

Maria Pita (1565-1643). Spanish heroine. Anonymous portrait
Maria Pita (Maria Mayor Fernandez de Camara y Pita) (1565-1643). Spanish heroine. King Philip II awarded her the rank of ensign for the defense of Corunna in 1589 against the attack of the English

Maria Pita - Spanish heroine. Memorial of Maria Pita
Maria Pita (Maria Mayor Fernandez de Camara y Pita) (1565-1643). Spanish heroine. King Philip II awarded her the rank of ensign for the defense of Corunna in 1589 against the attack of the English

Simon Arnao Date with Juan Caina, Mayor of Cambre and others on the restitution of properties owned by Maria Pita, 1586. From the Archive of the Kingdom of Galicia. Maria Pita House Museum

Maria Pita - Spanish heroine
Maria Pita (Maria Mayor Fernandez de Camara y Pita) (1565-1643). Spanish heroine. Philip II awarded her the rank of ensign for the defense of Corunna against the attack of the English Armada in 1589

Martin de Cavalar with Maria Pita on the ordinary writ concerning the place of Ledono (Lendoiro), 1616. Mayor Fernandez Pita claimed some properties that Martin de Cavalar had acquired from Francisco

Maria Pita - Spanish heroine. Death Certificate
Maria Pita (Maria Mayor Fernandez de Camara y Pita) (1565-1643). Spanish heroine. King Philip II awarded her the rank of ensign for the defense of Corunna against the attack of the English Armada

Letter sent by King Philip II to City Council of La Coruna
Philip II (1527-1598). King of Spain. Letter sent by King Philip II to the City Council of La Coruna thanking the city for its resistance to the English siege

The English Armada. Statement of causes which moved the chief commanders of the Navy of Her Most Excellent Majesty the Queen of England on the Voyage and Expedition to Portugal

Ephemeris expeditionis Norreysii & Draki in Lusitaniam
The English Armada. Ephemeris expeditionis Norreysii & Draki in Lusitaniam. Account of the expedition of Francis Drake and John Norris in 1589 against the Spanish-Portuguese ports

Siege of Corunna by the English Armada, 1589
Diary and relation of the siege of Corunna by the English Armada, 1589, by Captain Juan Varela. Manuscript, facsimile of the 19th century. From the Royal Galician Academy. Maria Pita House Museum

Maria Pita House Museum. Exterior facade. Corunna, Galicia, Spain

Maison Jeanne DArc, Rouen
An etching of a market square with tall, half timbered houses in Rouen, France. It was by the location where Joan of Arc was burned alive, on May 30th, 1431

Irene Vanbrugh as heroine in Pinero's Trelawny of the Wells
Irene Vanbrugh as the heroine, Rose Trelawny, in Pinero's play, Trelawny of the Wells Date: circa 1900s

Queen of the Redskins by Emma Litchfield
Promotional postcard for Queen of the Redskins by Emma Litchfield. First produced at the Elephant & Castle Theatre, 18th September 1911. The heroine Wahneetah is shown here holding her dead daughter

Illustration, Snowdrop -- The Dwarfs, when they came at evening, found Snowdrop lying on the ground quite dead. Date: 1909

SPAIN. Belchite. Sapin. Civil War (1936-1939). Ruins of Belchite, town where the battle of Belchite took place (24th August-6th September 1937)

TOMB OF JEMIMA NICHOLAS
The Fishguard tombstone of Jemima Nicholas, Welsh heroine of the French invasion of Britain, 22 February 1797. Aged 47 at the time, she rounded up 12 Frenchmen with her pitchfork! Date: 1750? - 1832

WINIFRED MAXWELL, COUNTESS OF NITHSDALE Wife of William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, English Jacobite. She helped him to escape from the Tower. Date: ? - 1749

Comic postcard, Two women chatting in underwear Date: 20th century

Shadows of a Great City by Joseph Jefferson and L R Sherwell. First produced in England, at the Princesss Theatre, 14 July 1887

Joan of Arc - How Joan the Maid, clad in Pages Dress, had audience of the Dauphin Charles - Kay Nielsen artwork. Date: 1922

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