Heroine Collection (page 2)

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

Room in which Joan of Arc was born, in Domremy, north-eastern France, as it existed in 1812. 1812

Little Women - Christmas entertainments
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Christmas entertainments, in which the friends and family dress up and act out scenes from a romantic melodrama

Sketch - Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as Tess of D Urbervilles
Front cover of The Sketch featuring a photograph of actress Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies in the role of Tess of the D Urbervilles in the stage version of Thomas Hardys novel

Advert, Scarboroughs Dress Fabrics, Halifax
Advertisement for Scarboroughs Celebrated Dress Fabrics, Ellen Reyde Mills, Halifax, October 1888, with a reference to Grace Darling and Fearnought Serges. 1888

Molly Pitcher

Heroine with Sword, Apple

FALL / LOWCHEN / LION DOG / 77
PRAWIS HAPPY HEROINE OF DUNCARA Owner: Perrei-Green Date: 1977

GENEVIEVE SAVED BY DEER
Genevieve de Brabant, heroine of a popular French legend, is saved by a deer when she is abandoned in the forest Date: 13th century

JENNY LIND / WALKER
Jenny Lind as Armina, the heroine of Bellinis opera LA SONNAMBULA (the sleepwalker) Date: 1840s

SERBIAN 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 Date: November 1912

Balfe - Satanella
SATANELLA A dramatic scene in which the heroine dreams of marriage - an effect achieved by a magic lantern projection Date: 1858

Hippodrome, London - stage effects 1906
When THE EARTHQUAKE is staged at the Hippodrome in Leicester Square, London, the stage is flooded and buildings collapse but the heroine survives... Date: 1906

Scene from Shakespeares Antony and Cleopatra
A scene from Shakespeares Roman play, Antony and Cleopatra, showing Cleopatra standing (right), with one of her servants seated (left) playing a stringed instrument

Paris, France - Statue of Joan of Arc by Chartrousse. Date: 1909

Branwen, Daughter of Llyr, the subject of a legend from medieval Welsh literature, the Mabinogi. Branwen is married off to a cruel Irish king; she tames a starling

Olivia, by Edmund Blair Leighton (from Twelfth Night). 1888

Mary Cornish - Heroine - WW2 - Sinking of SS City of Benares
Heroic Deeds of the War - Miss Mary Cornish. During the Second World War the City of Benares was used as an evacuee ship to evacuate 90 children from Britain to Canada

Fedora by Victorien Sardou - Australian actress Marie Lohr
Fedora by Victorien Sardou was first produced at the Theatre du Vaudeville in Paris, 12th December 1882. The English version by Herman Merivale was first produced at the Haymarket Theatre

As You Like It, by William Shakespeare, the Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton (seen here as Rosalind) 1907-8 season at His Majestys Theatre, London (they also played Othello, The Taming of the Shrew)

Queen Katherine of France, by Laurence Alma-Tadema
Queen [Princess] Katherine of France, by Laurence Alma-Tadema, receiving a lesson in the English language from her Nurse before meeting King Henry V of England (from Henry V). 1888

Beatrice, by Frank Dicksee (from Much Ado About Nothing). 1888

Jael, Deborah and Barak, 1635, by Salomon de Bray (1597-1664
Salomon de Bray (1597-1664). Dutch painter. Jael, Deborah and Barak, 1635. Catharijneconvent Museum. Utrecht. Netherlands

Jeanne Hachette / Perlet
JEANNE LAISNE, or FOURQUET known as JEANNE HACHETTE French heroine who defended Beauvais against the Burgundians in 1472 Date: 1454 -

Hobsons Choice by Harold Brighouse
Promotional postcard for Hobsons Choice by Harold Brighouse. First produced in England at the Apollo Theatre, 22nd June 1916. The story is set in Salford in 1880

WW1 - Emilienne Moreau, Heroine of Loos - Croix de Guerre
Emilienne Moreau-Evrard (18981971) - French heroine of World War I (where she won the Croix de Guerre due to her bravery at Loos) and World War II

AGUSTINA de ARAGON, Agustina Saragossa y Dom讥ch
AGUSTINA de ARAGON, Agustina Saragossa y Dom讥 ch, named (1790-1858). Spanish heroine during the Peninsular War, defendor of the Portillo in Zaragoza. Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

Dona Maria De Jesus
Dona Maria de Jesus, a patriotic heroine of the Peninsula War. We have found no further information about her, but she certainly looks jolly smart in her uniform

For His King and the Girl He Loved by Fred Maxwell
Promotional postcard of a poster for For His King and the Girl He Loved by Fred Maxwell. A wedding between hero and heroine was a common melodrama ending

The Cingalee (or Sunny Ceylon) by James Tanner
The Cingalee by James T. Tanner (17 October 1858 18 June 1915), with music by Lionel Monckton (18 December 1861 15 February 1924)

Maud Jeffries (1869 - 1946), American actress. She was noted for her height and beauty and became a popular subject for a wide range of theatrical post-cards and studio photographs

The Bird of Paradise by Richard Walton Tully. First produced in England Lyric Theatre on the 11th September 1919. The setting is Hawaii

Banished from Home, by Emma Litchfield
Banished From Home, by Emma Litchfield. First produced at the Britannia Theatre, May 1911. Nell, the gypsy heroine, looks back at her caravan for the last time, before leaving for London in despair

The Best of Luck, by Hamilton, Raleigh and Collins
The Best of Luck by Henry Hamilton, Cecil Raleigh and Arthur Collins. First produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, September 1916

Bible scene, Esther before Ahasuerus
Bible scene, Esther before the Persian King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) -- the Jewish heroine pleads for her people (Book of Esther). BCE

Phyllis Dare, heroine of The Lady of the Rose at Dalys Thea
A study of the actress Phyllis Dare, heroine of The Lady of the Rose at Dalys Theatre, London, 1923 Date: 1923

Viola, in Shakespeares comedy Twelfth Night
Viola (disguised as the page Cesario), in Shakespeares comedy Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 4. 19th century

Isabella, by Francis W Topham (from Measure for Measure). 1888

Rosalind, by R W Macbeth (from As You Like It). 1888

Imogen, by H G Schmalz (from Cymbeline). 1888

Sweet Anne Page, by G D Leslie (from The Merry Wives of Windsor). 1888

Shakespeare - Cymbeline - Imogen: Oh! - no answer? then I ll enter. circa 1830

Miss Evelyn Millard in The Adventure of Lady Ursula
The Adventure of Lady Ursula by Anthony Hope. First produced at the Duke of Yorks Theatre, London, on 11 October 1898, revival at the Garrick Theatre 5 January 1909

Chromolithograph Devotional Card - Joan of Arc
Chromolithograph Devotional Card depicting Joan of Arc entering Orleans on April 29th 1429. 1429

Illustration, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Illustration to Clarissa, a novel by Samuel Richardson. circa 1770s

Joan of Arc (1412-1431). Folk heroine of France and a Roman
Joan of Arc or The Maid of Orleans. Folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. She led the French army to several important victories against England during the Hundred Years War

Monument to the Siege of Zaragoza, 1908 by Agustin Querol. S
Napoleonic Wars. Peninsular War (1807-1814). Monument to the Siege of Zaragoza. Built in1908 by the Spanish sculptor Agustin Querol (1860-1909)

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