My collection seems to be short on stamps to meet this week's theme especially if you exclude Heads of State and France's Marianne. However I discovered one or two which I had to find out about first.
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| Sigrid Undset 1882-1949 |
Sigrid was born in Denmark but moved to Norway when she was two. Her claim to fame is that she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Her most famous book is probably Kristin Lavransdatter a trilogy about life in Scandinavia in the Middle Ages. You can read about her on the Nobel Prize site - "Sigrid Undset - Autobiography".
My second stamp comes from Mexico.
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| Josefa Ortiz |
Josefa Ortiz De Dominguez was the heroine of the Mexican Independence. One of
her most important contributions to the Independence
movement was when she alerted Father Miguel Hidalgo that the conspiracy had
been discovered by the Spanish.You can read more about her here
This is the year of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. I do not have any of the stamps issued to commemorate the event. I can however show some issued for her 60th birthday.
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| Queen Elizabeth II |
To see other famous women you should switch over to Viridian's Sunday Stamps 61
