Heroine Collection (page 4)

Joan of Arc - Wall Painting - Chateaux Bougival
Friday 29th April 1429 - Joan of Arc enters Orleans, France at the Burgundy Gate near dusk riding on a white horse. A wall painting by Henry Dumoutet in the main lounge of the Chateaux Bougival at

Miss Mairi Chisholm and Captain W. T. Hall
Mairi Lambert Gooden-Chisholm of Chisholm, better known as Mairi Chisholm (1895-1981), Scottish nurse and ambulance driver during World War I

Sister Glory Hancock
Madelon Battle Hancock (1881 - 1930), known as Glory Hancock was the most decorated woman of the First World War, with twelve medals awarded in total for her work

Eve from The Tatler becomes a film star, 1918
A sketch by Annie Fish to illustrate the Letters of Eve column in The Tatler magazine showing the fictional gossip columnist heroine in her new role - as a film star

Portrait of Edith Cavell. WW1
Portrait of Edith Cavell - Make Her Cause Of Mercy Your Own. By Eleanor M. Ross. The original drawing was exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1917

Glory Hancock, WW1
Madelon Battle Hancock (1881 - 1930), known as Glory Hancock was the most decorated woman of the First World War, with twelve medals awarded in total for her work

Mabel Sealby (1885 - ), British actress. Playing Clown Heroine of the Circus musical comedy in " Head over Heels" at Adelphi Theatre, london

Mlle. Edmee Dormeuil in the Better Ole
Edmee Dormeuil, French actress and star of The Better Ole, the musical play based on the cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander

Music cover, The Piccolomini Waltz, from Verdis opera La Traviata, as performed at Almacks and the Court Balls. Marietta Piccolomini (1834-1899)

Columbine
Harlequin illustration, showing Columbine in a garden. Date: 1923

Female Heroines - The Russian - a pretty fantasy blonde Russian woman portrait - she is wearing a lavishly adorned tiara. Date: circa 1910s

Monument to French spy Louise Marie Henriette de Bettignies
Monument to Louise Marie Henriette de Bettignies (1880-1918) in Lille - French spy (WWI) who worked for the British under the pseudonym of Alice Dubois

Monument to Joan of Arc at Bonsecours, France
Memorial to Joan of Arc built in an early Renaissance style and standing in front of the Basilica de Bonsecours, Normandy, France on a granite terrace overlooking the Seine valley. Date: circa 1908

Orleans, France - La Place du Martrol - Joan of Arc statue. Date: circa 1920s

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. Portrait by Lucio Rivas. Oil on canvas

GALVEZ, Juan (1774-1848). Agustina of Aragon

Zaragoza, Spain - Monument to Agustina of Aragon
Zaragoza, Spain - Monument to Agustina de Aragon (Agustina Raimunda Maria Saragossa Domenech) - Spanish heroine who defended Spain during the Spanish War of Independence

Opera singer as Mignon
An unidentified opera singer in the role of the gipsy Mignon in the opera of the same name by Ambroise Thomas, first performed in 1866, based on Goethes novel, Wilhelm Meister

Miss Betty Compson - American Actress
The Heroine of " Woman to Woman" The American actress Betty Compson photographed before her debut in a British Production of Woman to Woman produced by Graham Cutts featuring Betty in

Fanny Blankers-Koens reception in Amsterdam
Dutch athlete Mrs Fanny Blankers-Koen was a star of the 1948 London Olympics, becoming the first woman ever to win three Olympic titles. She won the 100 and 200 metres, and the 80 metres hurdles

Marie Curie Nurses
A group of French nurses of the Marie Curie Hospital, Paris, France, admiring a framed picture of their patron and heroine, Marie Curie. Date: early 1930s

Book / Time Device
ZAGRIBUD (John Russell Fearn) The Time Device allows the hero and heroine - but also the villain ! - to move in a fourth dimension... Date: 1937

Joan of Arc / Hinchliff
JOAN OF ARC French heroine dressed in armour Date: 1412? - 1431

Death in Stratosphere
DEATH IN THE STRATOSPHERE (Henry J Kostkos) Explorers encounter alarming wildlife up there : the heroine, dressed for golf, defends her spacecraft Date: 1937

Anne Jane Lady Audley
ANNE JANE, baroness AUDLEY (nee Donnelly) wife of George, 19th baron. (So far as we know, she is not the heroine of the play Lady Audleys Secret ) Date: ? - 1855

Piotrowiezowa, a heroine of the January Insurrection at Lodz
Patriotic Polish postcard depicting Piotrowiezowa (of the House of Michaels Fall), a heroine of the January Insurrection at Lodz - 15th February 1863 - fighting against the Russians

Chateaubriand / Atala
ATALA - the heroine, a princess with a Christian mother (note the cross), takes pity on the captured warrior Chactas, frees him and escapes with him into the jungle

Grace Darling
An idealised late Victorian portrait of Grace Darling, who rowed out with her lightkeeper father to save nine from the wrecked Forfarshire steamer

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

Fighting in Catania
Giuseppina di Barcelona, Sicilian heroine who took part in the fierce fighting at Catania, manning (?) a cannon against the Neapolitans. (We have an engraving of this)

Giuseppina Mans Gun
Giuseppina di Barcelona, Sicilian heroine who took part in the fierce fighting at Catania, mans (?) a cannon against the Neapolitans. (We also have a portrait of her)

Rob Roy / Diana Vernon
Diana Vernon, heroine of Rob Roy, hawking

Moll Flanders / Portrait
A portrait of the heroine

Brunhildes Departure
BRUNHILD(E)s DEPARTURE FROM ISENSTEIN : Painting celebrating Brunhild(e), the German mythical woman renowned for her superhuman physique

Joan of Arc (Deruet)
JOAN OF ARC French heroine

Theroigne De Mericourt
A J THEROIGNE DE MERICOURT French revolutionary heroine

Emilie Plater
countess EMILIE PLATER heroine of Polish insurrection against Russian rule

Halevy / La Juive / Rachel
LA JUIVE Rachel, the heroine

LYSISTRATA
The Greek heroine is here portrayed as an early example of militant feminism, standing up for the rights of Athenian women

Marriage Vision 1858
A dramatic scene from Balfes opera Satanella, or the Power of Love, in which the heroine dreams of marriage - an effect achieved by a magic lantern projection

Puccini / Fanciulla / Fp
Minnie, the heroine, with Dick Johnson, the hero, in the desert

Puccini / Fanciulla / Cover
Minnie, the heroine, framed by a lasso - Puccini based his opera on Belascos play

Burning of Savoy Palace
The burning of the Savoy Palace - Eleanor, Countess of March ( The Heroine of the Savoy ) confronts the mob

Joan of Arc (Richmond)
JOAN OF ARC French heroine, mounted and armoured

France / Domremy / Pensee
JOAN OF ARC View of the town of Domremy, where the French heroine grew up

Joan of Arc Hears Voices
JOAN OF ARC French heroine; hears divine voices

Joan of Arc (Macdonald)
JOAN OF ARC French heroine

Joan of Arc (Card)
JOAN OF ARC French heroine

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