Today's Sunday Stamps theme is famous women.
Eva sent me two women on this envelope made from a calendar page.
The women featured are:
María Bernaldo de Quirós Bustillo was the first Spanish woman to obtain a pilot's license - in 1928. You can read a little bit more about this aviation pioneer on her wikipedia page. Iberia airlines named one of their planes after her.
Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira was a social activist, a feminist, and writer. She was a prodigy who coud read at the age of two, spoke four languages by the age of eight, and finished law school at seventeen. Sadly she died aged eighteen, shot to death by her own mother. You can read more about her unconventional life on her wikipedia page.
Although fictional, Alice from Lewis Carroll's novels is even more famous.
The third stamp features the date 8 March, International Women's Day.
For links to more famous women on stamps, visit See it on a Postcard.
