Charlotte Corday 1768 1798 French Revolutionary heroine who was guillotined for the assassination of Jean Paul Marat in 1793 Engraved by Pannemaker From Histoire de la Revolution Francaise by Louis Blanc

Lucretia Roman heroine who comitted suicide after being raped Engraved by B Eyles after G Staal From the book World Noted Women by Mary Cowden Clarke published 1858

Joan of Arc 1412 1431 aka Jeanne d Arc or Jeanne la Pucelle French heroine and Saint of the Catholic church Engraved by W H Mote after G Staal From the book World Noted Women by Mary Cowden Clarke published 1858

Rama and Sita, hero and heroine in the Ramlilla stage play, The story of the great Hindu epic, The Ramayana, held for a month near Benares at Ramagner, Ramlilla Festival, India, Asia

Monument to Flora MacDonald the young heroine who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape the English in 1746, Kilmuir graveyard, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Joan of Arc 1412 1431 aka Jeanne d Arc or Jeanne la Pucelle French heroine and Saint of the Catholic church Engraved by W H Mote after G Staal From the book World Noted Women by Mary Cowden Clarke published 1858

Lucretia Roman heroine who comitted suicide after being raped Engraved by B Eyles after G Staal From the book World Noted Women by Mary Cowden Clarke published 1858

Monument to Flora MacDonald, the young heroine who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape the English in 1746, Kilmuir graveyard, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Highland region, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Judith, Jewish heroine, having gained confidence of the Assyrian general Holofernes, cuts off his head and saves the town of Bethulia from capture. Judith 13:10 from Gustave Dore's illustrated "Bible" 1866. Wood engraving

Interior of the Musee du Louvre Paris Louvre Museum showing the Winged Victory of Samothrace sculpture Paris France Europe The statue dates from the 2nd Century BC and comes from the Ionian Islands in Greece Palais du Louvre Paris France Europe

Return of Judith to Bethulia C. 1470 Sandro Botticelli (C. 1444-1510/Italian) Tempera on wood Galleria Degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

Mary Kingsley as Joan of Arc in the historical play Henry IV Part 1 by William Shakespeare. Alice Maud Mary Arcliffe, (1852-1936), English actress who used the stage name Mary Kingsley. Active in the women's suffrage movement in London from about 1906

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) English nursing pioneer and hospital reformer inspecting wards of the military hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War (1853-56). Patients able to leave bed cluster round a box stove.

Grace Darling was the daughter of the local lifeboatman and she and her father rowed out in a storm to the stricken ship 'Forfarshire' and rescued the crew. She is buried in the local churchyard of Bamburgh. Northumberland, England