Lady Godiva lived in 11th century England and married the Duke Leofric. She saw that the people of Coventry did not have a good life and decided to help them. She made a deal with her husband that if she rode naked on a horse through town, he would lower taxes for the people. When the people heard of her plan, they stayed inside so as not to see her, and the Duke lowered taxes as promised.

2. Lady
Godiva

3. Lady Godiva lived in 1040 in Coventry,
England.
She married the duke Leofric, both built
Coventry´s monastery.
Thanks to Leofric, the town was growing and it
became an important centre in the region.
Lady Godiva had a big human spirit, she was
more with the people. People started to feel
more respect and affection for her.
She saw that people didn´t have a good life
and she decided to do something for them.

4. She thought of a
compromise, she told
her husband that if she
went out nude riding on
her horse around town
he would for the people.
When the people knew
Lady Godiva´s
intentions they stayed
in their houses with
their doors and
windows closed in order
not to see her.
Leofric fulfilled his word
and asked them for less
money. He saw his wife
could love him, but also
their people.

5. Elizabeth I of England

6. Queen of England
and Ireland She spent her
(1558-1603), childhood far from
daughter of Henry the court and she
VIII, king of studied in the best
England, and her college of England.
second wife, The sixth wife of
Anne Boleyn. She Henry went to the
was the last court. After the
member of the death of Henry VIII,
Tudor Dinasty to Catherine took
be in the throne care of her. Her
of England. younger brother got
the crown alhough
She was born in his rule was short.
Greenwich When this brother
(London) the died, Elisabeth
seventh of supported her sister
September 1953. Mary.

7. In 1554, Elisabeth was incarcerated
because of on acusation of being
implicated in the conspiration of Wyatt.
Later, she was liberated and she
recovered her sister Mary´s favour.
During her reign piracy lived one of its
best moments with pirates such as
Francis Drake and John Hawkins.
Elizabeth was the central figure in the
court, where she was worshipped to
such an extent that she even substituted
the image of the Virgin Mary, receiving
the name of “The Virgin Queen”. Many
poems were dedicated to the exaltation
of her qualities even though it was quite
known that she had a good number of
lovers.

8. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
An English feminist writer. She was born probably in London. In 1780 she
left their house to earn a living writing with her sisters for two years and
later she worked as governess in Ireland.
The moderate success of
their first novel, Mary’s novel,
took her to settle down in
London, where she worked as
a teacher and a translator.
Her most
famous work
She was member of a group
was “Mary and
of intellectuals formed by
the Wrongs of
William Blake, Thomas Paine
Women: a
Josept Priestly and Henry
Vindication of
Fusely.
Women’s

9. Jane Austen(1775-1817)
Jane Austen: was an
English novelist whose
works include Sense and
Sensibility, Pride and
Prejudice, Mansfield Park,
Emma, Northanger Abbey,
and Persuasion. Her biting
social commentary and
masterful use of both free
indirect speech and irony
eventually made Austen
one of the most influential
and honored novelists in
English Literature.

10. GEORGE ELLIOT
Penname of Marian Evans, English novelist
whose books, (of a deep sensibility and good
portraits of the simple lives) granted her an
ouststanding position in the literature of the
XIX century.
Her fame was international
and her work influenced in
great measure the
development of the French
Naturalism. She was a
favourable feminist critic
till she died in 1880.

11. Susan B.Anthony
(February 15,1820 Adams, Massachusetts- March 13 Rochester, New YorK,1906)
Susan B.Anthony was a prominent independent and well-educated American
civil rights leader who placed a pivotal role in the 19th century women’s rights
movement to secure women’s suffrage in the United States.
Anthony died in Rochester, New York, in her house on Madison St. on March
13,1906, and is buried at Mount Hope Cementery.
One of her works is: ``The History of women’s Suffrage´´

12. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE(1820-1910)
• Florence Nightingale:
nurse, reformer of the
sanitary system and
philanthropist. She was
born in Florence in 1820,
she studied nursery and
served as a volunteer nurse
in the war of Crime. Then
she founded the
Nightingale school and
home for nurses. She died
in 1910 and, thanks to her,
nursery became a career
with a high formation.

13. Gertrude Bell
(14-7-1868/12-7-1926 )
She was a British writer, She was born in Washington,
traveller, political analyst, to a family of great affluence.
administrator in Arabia, and When she was 16 she gained
an archaeologist who found a first class honours degree
in history in only two years.
Mesopotamian ruins. In 1900 she travelled to
Jerusalem dressed as a male
Bedouin to look for the
bruzes, and she published her
observations in a book. She
also became honorary
secretary of the British
Women’s Anti-Suffrage
League. Bell returned to
Britain in 1925, and found
herself facing family
problems and ill health.

14. She was born on 15th September
1890.She didn’t go to school because
her mother wanted to teach her at
home. She studied piano and singing
in Paris. She was a famous writer.
She published her first novel in 1920.
The main character was a belgian
detective, Hercules Poirot. The book
soon became a best-seller and made
her famous.
She also created the detective Miss
Marple. The play “Mousetrap”
opened at a theatre in the west end of
London in 1952.
During her life she wrote nearly 80
detective stories and she also wrote
some romantic novels under the
penname of Mary West Macott.
She died in January 1976.
Agatha Christie’s thrillers are famous
for their surprising endings.

15. Victoria Mary Sackville-west
She was an English novelist and poet, member of the old
Sackville family, owners of Kmole, a property in Kent
which dates from Tudor times. Known as Vita Sackville-
West she wrote (among many others) “The Edwardians”,
“ All Passion Spent” (wihich deals with marriage),
“Family History” and “Pepita”.
She was a good gardener, and she designed the
famoust Sissinghurst Castle gardens, where she lived
and which now belongs to the National Trust. Her
friendship with Virginia Woolf influenced the writing and
the lives of both women, and they have been the source
of a lot of criticism.
Some of the parts of Vita’s life are mixed up in Woolf’s
“Orlando”.

16. ROSA PARKS
February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005 She was an
African American civil rights activist and
seamstress whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the
"Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights
Movement".
Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1,
1955 to obey bus driver James Blake's demand
that she relinquish her seat to a white man. Her
subsequent arrest and trial for this act of civil
disobedience triggered the Montgomer Bus
Boycott, one of the largest and most successful
mass movements against racial segregation in
history, and launched Martin Luther King, Jr., one
of the organizers of the boycott, to the forefront of
the civil rights movement. Her role in American
history earned her an iconic status in American
culture, and her actions have left an enduring
legacy for civil rights movements around the world.

17. MARGARET THATCHER
Thatcher was a British Prime Minister with a long mandate. She is also
the only woman who has served as Prime Minister, one of the two only in
leading an important political party in the United Kingdom or to have one
of Great Offices of State. Thatcher received academical formation in the
female school Kesteven and afterwards went to Somerville in the
University of Oxford in 1944 to study chemistry.
She became president of the Conservative
Asociation of the University of Oxford in 1946, the
third woman in reaching that position. She graduated
with a second class degree and worked as a
chemistry investigator for British Xylonite and after
for J. Lyons and Co, where she helped to develop
methods for preservation of ice creams. She was
also a member of the Asociation of Scientific
Workers.

18. Marilyn Monroe
• (1st June 1926 – 5th August 1962) Marilin Monroe is her
artistic name. Her real name was Norma Jeane
Mortensen.
• She was an actress. She was born in Los Angeles
(California). She became a sexual simbol in 1950.
• Her mother was Gladys Monroe Baker, and her father,
probably was Stanley Gifford, but it is not sure.
• Marilin was diagnosed paranoid squizofrenia. When her
mother had had psychological crisis, Marilin had lived with
her grandparents, in bruphans houses. When she was 16
years old she got married with James E. Dougherty (21
years old, Irish)
• Her husband went to Australia. In 1945 a photographer of
the Navy visited the factory where she worked with her
husband’s mother. Monroe was chosen for the photos.
The Yank magazine suggested her to become a model.

19. DIAN FOSSEY
DIAN FOSSEY
She was born in San Francisco in 1932. She studied at
the university of California.
Fossey travelled to Africa in 1963. There she observed
mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. She learnt to
recognize the characteristics of each individual, getting a
connection with them. Krisike, her studying place,
became the International Centre of Investigation on
Gorillas. In 1983 she published “ Gorillas in the fog”. Her
death was atributed to the Poacher´s boss; who were
getting the protected species of gorillas to extiction.
Her job contributed to the gorilla´s population recovery.

20. Patricia Bar ker
Patricia Barker (1943- ?) British novelist who was born in
Thornoby-on- Tees in the northwest of England , places
that will be the scene of many people of her works.
She worked as a teacher between 1965 and 1970 and did
not publish her first novel ,” Union Street”, until 1982,
work that stands out for her dry and direct descriptions
of the life of the hard-working class and is cosidered to
be one of the most important authoresses of the arisen
ones at the beguinning of the decade of 1980.
The suffering of the women of the hard-working class
continues being the center of her two following works, “Strip Your
House”(1984) and “The Daughter of the Century”

21. J. K. ROWLING (1965-)
J.K.Rowling: British
writer of literature for
children, author of
collections of adventure
books. She was born in
Chopping and she
gratuated from the
University of Exeter. Her
most popular works are
the stories of a young
wizard called Harry
Potter. This work has
encouraged millions of
children between 8 and
13 years old to read.