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The Seven Lady Godivas: The True Facts Concerning History's Barest Family is a picture book of the tale of Lady Godiva, written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss. One of Seuss's few books written for adults, its original 1939 publication by Random House was a failure and was eventually remaindered. However, it later gained popularity as Seuss ...
Lady Godiva by John Collier, c. 1897, in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry. Lady Godiva: Edmund Blair Leighton depicts her moment of decision (1892). Lady Godiva (/ ɡ ə ˈ d aɪ v ə /; died between 1066 and 1086), in Old English Godgifu, was a late Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who is relatively well documented as the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and a patron of various churches and ...
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The Coventry Corporation records provide the earliest record of the Godiva Procession: In this year (1677-8), in the Mayoralty of Mr Michael Earle, there was a new show on the summer, or Great Fair, of followers- that is boys sent out by the several companies, and each Company having new Streamers, and Lady Godiva rode before the Mayor to proclaim the Fair.
Earl Leofric and Godiva were noted for great generosity to religious houses. In 1043 he founded and endowed a Benedictine monastery at Coventry. [8] John of Worcester tells us that "He and his wife, the noble Countess Godgifu, a worshipper of God and devout lover of St Mary ever-virgin, built the monastery there from the foundations out of their own patrimony, and endowed it adequately with ...
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Lady Godiva is an 1897 oil-on-canvas painting by English artist John Collier, [1] who worked in the style of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The portrayal of Lady Godiva and her well-known but apocryphal ride through Coventry , England, is held in Coventry's Herbert Art Gallery and Museum .
The statue depicts Lady Godiva on her naked ride through the city to protest her husband’s oppressive taxes.The plinth is inscribed with passages from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem Godiva along with a dedication from William Bassett-Green to Lady Godiva and the people of Coventry.