Проект на тему "Выдающиеся женщины Великобритании"

Project: The most famous and outstanding women in Great Britain

Prepared by Tomilina Olga

Form:7a

Teacher: Zhavoronkova E.W .

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was called the granny of Europe. Victorian England was connected with great inventions, science revolution. Together with her husband Albert and nine children Victoria became the symbol of new and happy epoch in the history of Great Britain.

Queen Anna (Stuart)-(1665-1714)

Anne became Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702. On 1 May 1707. When she was a queen two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland , united as a single sovereign state known as Great Britain. During her reign, Anne favoured moderate Tory politicians, who were more likely to share her Anglican religious views than their opponents, the Whigs. The Whigs grew more powerful during the course of the War of the Spanish Succession, until 1710 when Anne dismissed many of them from office. Her close friendship with Sarah Churchilll Duchess of Marlborough, turned sour as the result of political differences. 

Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher was a British stateswoman who was  Prime Minister of the United Kingdom  from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century, and the first woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her "The Iron Lady", a nickname that came to be associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism.

Queen Elizabeth II (1926)

Elizabeth II  has been Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand since 6 February 1952. Additionally, she is Head of the Commonwealth and Queen of 12 countries that have become independent since her accession. She is patron of over 600 organisations and charities. Her main leisure interests include equestrianism and dogs.

Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997)

Diana, Princess of Wales was a member of the British royal family as the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, who is the eldest child and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II. In addition to health-related matters, Diana's extensive charity work included campaigning for animal protection and her fight against the use of landmines. She was the patroness of charities and organisations working with the homeless, youth, drug addicts, and the elderly. From 1989, she was president of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. From 1991 to 1996, she was a patron of Headway, a brain injury association. She was patron of Natural History Museum and president of Royal Academy of Music.

Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)

Jane Austen was an English novelist, whose works include Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma . Her masterful use of language and irony made Austen one of the most influential and honored novelists in English literature.

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)

Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a manager of nurses trained by her during the Crimean War, where she organised the tending to wounded soldiers. She gave nursing a highly favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture.

VIVIEN LEIGH ( 1913-1967)

Vivien Leigh was an English stage and film actress. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress for her iconic performances as Scarlett O'Hara in  Gone with the Wind  (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of  A Streetcar Named Desire  (1951), a role she had also played on stage in London's West End in 1949.  in 1999 the American Film Institute ranked Leigh as the 16th greatest female movie star of classic Hollywood cinema.

Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)

Charlotte Brontë  was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her works (including her best known novel,  Jane Eyre ) under the pen name  Currer Bell .

Agatha Ch ristie (1890-1976)

Agatha Christie is an English writer of popular books and plays. Her most famous characters are the detectives Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. « Murder on the Orient Express» and «Death on the Nile» are her best-known books.

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)

Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace  was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She created the first  algorithm intended to be carried out by such a machine. As a result, she is often regarded as the first to recognise the full potential of a "computing machine" and the first computer programmer.

Jayne Torvill (1957)

Jayne Torvill is an English ice dancer. With Christopher Dean, she won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. 28 April 1983 Torvill was appointed Honorary Freeman of the City of Nottingham. Torvill was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2000 New Year Honours list. Torvill and Dean were elected to the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1989.

Barbara Cartland (1901 – 2000 )

Mary Barbara Hamilton is one of the most prolific writers of the 20-th century. She published 723 books. Her books are translated in 38 languages and she is put down into the Guinness Book of Records. She wrote about love.

Theresa May (1956)

Theresa Mary May is a British politician who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2016, the second woman to hold both positions, the first being Margaret Thatcher. She has been the Member of Parliament for Maidenhead since 1997. Ideologically, she identifies herself as a one-nation conservative.

Joanne Rowling (1965)

Joanne Rowling was born in July 1965 at Yate General Hospital in England and grew up in Chepstow. She is the author of one of the most popular British children’s books about young magician Harry Potter.

Conclusion

Empresses and queens, beauties and favorites, ladies and countesses, whose names we can find in the students books of history. Among outstanding women there are a lot of politicians, scientists, cultural activists, writers, actresses. They are famous for their works all over the world. They are loved and honored by their contemprories.