Editing Lady Godiva (section)

== Images in art and society ==
[[File:England, Conder Token, Coventry Halfpenny 1792 (Lady Godiva).jpg|thumb|right|Coventry [[Halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin)|halfpenny]] 1792 with Lady Godiva (right) depicted on the reverse]]
[[File:Godiva statue at St Mary's Guildhall - geograph.org.uk - 3576590.jpg|thumb|Statue at [[St Mary's Guildhall]] in Coventry by [[William Calder Marshall]]]]
[[File:'The Lady Godiva Procession' by Thomas Stevens, Honolulu Museum of Art 2015-13-01.JPG|thumb|[[Stevengraph]] woven silk picture ''The Lady Godiva Procession'' (1887), produced by Coventry weaver and inventor [[Thomas Stevens (weaver)|Thomas Stevens]] and now held at the [[Honolulu Museum of Art]]]]
The [[Herbert Art Gallery and Museum]] in Coventry maintains a permanent exhibition on the subject.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Godiva – The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum |url=https://www.theherbert.org/collections/visual_arts/23/godiva |access-date=7 September 2024 |website=www.theherbert.org}}</ref> The oldest painting was commissioned by the [[County of the City of Coventry]] in 1586 and produced by [[Adam van Noort]], a refugee [[Flemish people|Flemish]] artist. His painting depicts a "voluptuously displayed" Lady Godiva against the background of a "fantastical Italianate Coventry". In addition the Gallery has collected many Victorian interpretations of the subject described by [[Marina Warner]] as "an oddly composed [[Edwin Henry Landseer|Landseer]], a swooning [[George Frederic Watts|Watts]] and a sumptuous [[Alfred Woolmer]]".<ref name="Times" /> The collection also includes paintings by the Coventry artist [[David Gee (artist)|David Gee]], such as ''The Godiva Procession Leaving St Mary's Hall.''<ref name=":0" />

A 14th century window depicting Lady Godiva and her husband once existed in [[Holy Trinity Church, Coventry|Holy Trinity Church]], but was removed in 1775. It bore the inscription 'I Luriche for the love of thee Doe make Coventre tol-free.'<ref name=":1" />

In 1792, Lady Godiva was depicted on the reverse of a Coventry halfpenny [[Conder token]]—a privately minted [[token coin]]age struck and used in Britain during the late 18th century and the early part of the 19th century (a period of the [[Industrial Revolution]]).<ref>{{cite book |title=The Ultimate Guide to Conder Tokens: The Provincial Token-Coinage of the 18th Century Digital Quick Reference. |date=2010 |publisher=NumisSource, LLC; Digital Numismatic Publishing |edition=First}}</ref>
[[Thomas Stevens (weaver)|Thomas Stevens]], the 19th-century Coventry born [[Weaver (occupation)|weaver]], famous for his innovation of the woven [[silk]] pictures known as [[stevengraph]]s,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Krupnick |first=Max |date=2024-10-08 |title=Stevengraphs: Woven Silk Portraits from Coventry to Harvard {{!}} Harvard Magazine |url=https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/11/stevengraphs-silk-portraits |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=www.harvardmagazine.com |language=en}}</ref> sold an image of the ''Lady Godiva Procession'' amongst his designs.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Oakley |first=Howard |date=2023-05-28 |title=Folk Tales in Paintings: Lady Godiva and Wanda |url=https://eclecticlight.co/2023/05/28/folk-tales-in-paintings-lady-godiva-and-wanda/ |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=The Eclectic Light Company |language=en}}</ref> Another medium used to depict Godiva was [[Linocut|linocut printing]], with Haydn Reynolds Mackey's early 20th century work held in the collection of the [[Royal Academy of Arts]] in London.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lady Godiva {{!}} Works of Art {{!}} RA Collection {{!}} Royal Academy of Arts |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/lady-godiva |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=www.royalacademy.org.uk}}</ref>

[[John Collier (painter)|John Collier]]'s painting ''[[Lady Godiva (painting)|Lady Godiva]]'' (1897) was bequeathed by social reformer [[Thomas Hancock Nunn]]. When he died in 1937, the [[Pre-Raphaelite]]-style painting was offered to the [[Corporation of Hampstead]]. He specified in his will that should his bequest be refused by [[Hampstead]] (presumably on grounds of propriety) the painting was then to be offered to Coventry. The painting now hangs in the [[Herbert Art Gallery and Museum]].<ref name="Mont" />

[[St Mary's Guildhall]] in Coventry houses a marble statue by [[William Calder Marshall]] of Lady Godiva, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854.<ref>{{cite web |title=Godiva {{!}} Art UK |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/godiva-273167/search/venue:st-marys-guildhall-coventry-3464/page/1/view_as/grid |access-date=15 September 2024 |website=artuk.org }}</ref> American sculptor [[Anne Whitney]] also created a marble sculpture of Lady Godiva, now in the collection of the [[Dallas Museum of Art]], Dallas, Texas,<ref>{{cite web|title = SIRIS – Smithsonian Institution Research Information System|url = http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=X43788H3E8402.263269&menu=search&aspect=Keyword&npp=50&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=ariall&ri=&source=~!siartinventories&term=godiva&index=.GW&x=14&y=10&aspect=Keyword&term=Anne+Whitney&index=.AW&term=&index=.TW&term=&index=.SW&term=&index=.FW&term=&index=.OW&term=&index=.NW|website = siris-artinventories.si.edu|access-date = 26 July 2015|archive-date = 1 October 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151001014453/http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=X43788H3E8402.263269&menu=search&aspect=Keyword&npp=50&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=ariall&ri=&source=~!siartinventories&term=godiva&index=.GW&x=14&y=10&aspect=Keyword&term=Anne+Whitney&index=.AW&term=&index=.TW&term=&index=.SW&term=&index=.FW&term=&index=.OW&term=&index=.NW|url-status = live}}</ref> and another sculpture of Lady Godiva by stonemason [[John Thomas (sculptor)|John Thomas]] is held at the [[Maidstone Museum]], Kent.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Beth |date=2017-02-17 |title=Nudity and Protest: From Lady Godiva to the Present Day |url=https://museum.maidstone.gov.uk/nudity-protest-lady-godiva-present-day/ |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=Maidstone Museum |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Coventry ===
[[File:Lady Godiva clock -Broadgate -Coventry-21July2008.jpg|thumb|alt=|Installed in 1953, the Lady Godiva Clock in [[Coventry]] displays her naked ride through the city and Peeping Tom's voyeurism]]
The Godiva Procession, a commemoration of the legendary ride, was instituted on 31 May 1678 as part of Coventry fair and was celebrated up to the 1960s. The part of Lady Godiva was usually played by a scantily clad actress or dancer, and the occasion often attracted controversy. For instance, in 1854, the [[Bishop of Worcester]] protested against "a Birmingham whore being paraded through the streets as Lady Godiva." These annual processions were enlivened by constant rumours, beforehand, that the girl playing the part of Lady Godiva would actually appear nude, like the original. These hopes were eventually realised in a play staged in 1974, at the [[Belgrade Theatre]] in Coventry, entitled ''The Only True Story of Lady Godiva'', in which Lady Godiva appeared naked, riding a motor bike.<ref>Palmer, Roy (1976) ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Folklore_of_Warwickshire.html?id=Mv3ZAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y The Folklore of Warwickshire],'' Batsford'','' pp. 138–139. {{ISBN|9780713431643}}</ref>

The wooden effigy of Peeping Tom which, from 1812 until World War II looked out on the world from a hotel at the northwest corner of Hertford Street, Coventry, can now be found in Cathedral Lanes Shopping Centre. It represents a man in armour and was probably an image of [[Saint George]]. Nearby, in the 1950s rebuilt Broadgate, an animated Peeping Tom watches over Lady Godiva as she makes her hourly ride around the Godiva Clock.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/nowandthen/hertfd-from-bgate.php |title=Coventry Now & Then: Hertford Street from Broadgate<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=28 August 2007 |archive-date=28 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928061327/http://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/nowandthen/hertfd-from-bgate.php |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Godiva giant puppet 2 (21735603976).jpg|thumb|upright|Giant puppet of Lady Godiva walking through the streets of Coventry in September 2015]]
From the mid-1980s a Coventry resident, Pru Porretta, has adopted a Lady Godiva role to promote community events and good works in the city. Porretta retains the status of Coventry's unofficial ambassador. Each September Poretta marks the occasion of Lady Godiva's birthday by leading a local pageant focusing on world peace and unity known as The Godiva Sisters. In August 2007, the Godiva Sisters was performed in front of 900 delegates from 69 countries attending the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children Biennial Conference held at the University of Warwick. In the [[2010 New Year Honours]] Porretta was appointed a Member of the [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|Order of The British Empire]] ''for services to the city of Coventry community and tourism services''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8435052.stm|title=Ringmaster and rockers honoured by Queen|date=31 December 2009|website=BBC News|quote=Pru Poretta, who has been Coventry's official Lady Godiva since 1982, has also been appointed MBE. ... She said she was "shocked and humbled" to receive the honour, for services to the city's community and tourism services.|access-date=31 December 2009|archive-date=27 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027043141/http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8435052.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1999, Coventry councillors considered eliminating Godiva from the city's public identity,<ref>[http://www.cwn.org.uk/godiva/1999/11/991115-drop-godiva.htm "Don't Drop Lady Godiva"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060621071408/http://www.cwn.org.uk/godiva/1999/11/991115-drop-godiva.htm |date=21 June 2006 }}, Coventry & Warwickshire News, 15 November 1999</ref> however, the [[Coventry City Council]] logo unveiled in 2000 features Lady Godiva and her horse.<ref>{{cite web |title=Coventry City Council news – Does The New Look Godiva Inspire You? – 23 August 2000 |url=https://www.cwn.org.uk/politics/coventry-city-council/2000/08/000823-new-logo.htm |access-date=15 September 2024 |website=www.cwn.org.uk}}</ref> The previous logo also featured Godiva.<ref name="Lady Godiva: The naked truth" />

In 2010 an arts project, "Godiva Awakes", involving a 32 foot (10-metres) tall puppet version of Lady Godiva, powered by 50 bicycles, leading a procession from Coventry to London, was proposed by the independent company Imagineer productions (best known locally for reviving the Coventry Mystery Plays and reimagining the Coventry Carnival as the [[Godiva Festival]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artiststakingthelead.org.uk/west-midlands/jane-hytch-godiva-awakes |title=Artists Taking the Lead |access-date=27 October 2022 |archive-date=4 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110304004044/http://www.artiststakingthelead.org.uk/west-midlands/jane-hytch-godiva-awakes |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Literature ===
* [[Godiva (poem)|"Godiva"]] (1842), a poem by [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Godiva by Lord Alfred Tennyson |url=https://www.online-literature.com/tennyson/4076/ |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=www.online-literature.com}}</ref>
* "Guli" ("The Heart"), a poem by [[Galaktion Tabidze]], includes a mention of Lady Godiva.<ref>http://www.nplg.gov.ge/ebooks/authors/galaktion_tabidze/guli.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615173651/http://www.nplg.gov.ge/ebooks/authors/galaktion_tabidze/guli.pdf |date=15 June 2011 }} ''Guli'' ("The Heart") by [[Galaktion Tabidze]] (in Georgian) on the official website of the [[National Parliamentary Library of Georgia]]</ref>
* ''[[The Seven Lady Godivas]]: The True Facts Concerning History's Barest Family'' (1939), a short illustrated novel by [[Dr. Seuss]].
* ''Lady Godiva and Master Tom'', a 1948 novel by Raoul Cohen Faure.<ref>{{cite book |last=Faure |first=Raoul Cohen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JPkSAAAAMAAJ&q=lady+godiva |title=Lady Godiva and Master Tom |date=1948 |publisher=Harper }}</ref>
* ''Godiva: A Novel'', by [[Nicole Galland]], a 2013 historic novel.<ref>{{cite book |last=Galland |first=Nicole |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K3lZd9P5bloC&q=lady+godiva |title=Godiva |date=2 July 2013 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=978-0-06-225025-4 }}</ref>
* ''Naked: A Novel of Lady Godiva'', by Eliza Redgold, a 2015 romantic novel based on Godiva's life.<ref>{{cite book |last=Redgold |first=Eliza |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nlrMCQAAQBAJ |title=Naked: A Novel of Lady Godiva |date=14 July 2015 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-1-250-06615-2 }}</ref> 
* ''Lady Godiva’s Birthday Suit'' by Aaron Ashmore, a 2021 children's book.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lady Godiva's Birthday Suit children's book |url=https://etchandpin.co.uk/products/lady-godiva-s-birthday-suit-book |access-date=2024-10-20 |website=Etch & Pin |language=en}}</ref>

=== Classical music and opera ===
* [[Vítězslav Novák]] composed a [[concert overture]] called ''Lady Godiva'' based on the story (Prague, 1907; [[Opus number|Op.]] 41).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.universaledition.com/composers-and-works/Vitezslav-Novak/Lady-Godiva/composer/519/work/3296 |title=Vítezslav Novák: Lady Godiva |website=[[Universal Edition]] |access-date=19 January 2017 |archive-date=2 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202003122/http://www.universaledition.com/composers-and-works/Vitezslav-Novak/Lady-Godiva/composer/519/work/3296 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Modern music===
*The 1966 [[Peter and Gordon]] song "[[Lady Godiva (song)|Lady Godiva]]" reimagines the Lady Godiva legend in the modern day.<ref>{{cite book |title=  Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955–2012 |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2013 |publisher=Record Research |page=654}}</ref>
*The 1968 [[The Velvet Underground|Velvet Underground]] song "[[Lady Godiva's Operation]]" tells the story of a [[Gender-affirming surgery|transitional operation]] turned into a botched [[lobotomy]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Bloom |first=Howard |date=April 1973 |title=The Eerie Roots of Lou Reed's New Transformer |pages=48 |work=[[Circus Magazine]] |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_circus_1973-04_7_7/page/n48/mode/1up?q=lady&view=theater |author-link=Howard Bloom}}{{dead link|date=September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Wawzenek |first=Bryan |date=2018-03-30 |title=Doctor, Doctor, Give Me the News: 40 Songs About Doctors |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/doctor-songs/ |access-date=2024-10-20 |website=[[Ultimate Classic Rock]] |language=en}}</ref>
*The 1978 [[Queen (band)|Queen]] song "[[Don't Stop Me Now]]" mentions Lady Godiva with the line "I'm a racing car, passing by like Lady Godiva".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Clerc |first1=Benoît |title=Queen All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track |date=20 October 2020 |publisher=[[Workman Publishing Company]] |isbn=978-0-7624-7123-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2lrODwAAQBAJ |access-date=19 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://genius.com/2151087 |title=Queen – Don't Stop Me Now Lyrics – Genius |website=[[Genius (company)|"Genius"]] |access-date=23 April 2023}}</ref>

=== Film ===
[[File:LadyGodivafilmposter.jpg|thumb|upright|''[[Lady Godiva of Coventry]]'' film poster.]]
* [[Lady Godiva (1911 film)|''Lady Godiva'']] (1911), silent short film by [[Vitagraph Studios]] with [[Julia Swayne Gordon]] as Lady Godiva.<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsgULex0l0s |title=Lady Godiva −1911– J. Stuart Blackton – A legend of the 13th century-Classic silent film |date= |last= |access-date=15 September 2024 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
* ''[[Lady Godiva (1921 film)|Lady Godiva]]'' (1921), a German silent drama film<ref>{{cite web |last=Moest |first=Hubert |title=Lady Godiva |date=7 May 1922 |type=Drama |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0136360/ |access-date=15 September 2024 |others=Ernst Deutsch, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein |publisher=Aß-Film}}</ref> starring [[Hedda Vernon]] as Lady Godiva.<ref>Gorgievski, Sandra (2020), "[https://www.academia.edu/44321060/_Lady_Godiva_on_Film_in_Kevin_J_Harty_ed_Medieval_Women_on_Film_Jefferson_McFarland_2020_p_132_146 Lady Godiva on Film: Icon of Faith, Icon of Feminism or Erotic Simulacrum]" In Harty, Kevin J. (ed.), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=HOvaDwAAQBAJ Medieval Women on Film: Essays on Gender, Cinema and History]'', Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, pp. 132, 136, {{ISBN|978-1-4766-6844-4}}.</ref>
* ''The Lady Godiva'' (1928), silent short film based on Tennyson's poem and with [[Gladys Jennings]] as Lady Godiva.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Banfield |first1=George J. |title=Lady Godiva |date=18 April 1928 |type=Short, Drama |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0820912/ |access-date=15 September 2024 |others=Gladys Jennings, Roy Travers, Syd Ellery |publisher=British Filmcraft Productions |last2=Eveleigh |first2=Leslie}}</ref> Also known as ''Ghosts of Yesterday #1: Lady Godiva''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gilbert |first1=Simon |last2=Rodger |first2=James |date=23 July 2015 |title=Nostalgia video: The Lady Godiva (1928) |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/watch-bfi-unseen-video-lady-9709784 |access-date=15 September 2024 |website=Coventry Live }}</ref>
* ''[[Lady Godiva Rides Again]]'' (1950), British comedy film with [[Diana Dors]] and [[Pauline Stroud]]. Titled ''Bikini Baby'' in the United States. 
*''[[Lady Godiva of Coventry]]'' (1955), starring Irish actress [[Maureen O'Hara]] in the title role.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/98486/Lady-Godiva/overview | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126190213/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/98486/Lady-Godiva/overview | archive-date=26 January 2009 | first=Bosley | last=Crowther | access-date=7 May 2010 | department=Movies & TV Dept. | work=[[The New York Times]] | author-link=Bosley Crowther | year=2009 | title=Movies: About Lady Godiva}}</ref>
* ''[[Lady Godiva: Back in the Saddle]]'' (2007), comedy film.<ref>{{cite web |last=BBFC |title=Lady Godiva – Back In The Saddle |url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/lady-godiva-back-in-the-saddle-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zntq5nja |access-date=7 September 2024 |website=www.bbfc.co.uk }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Live |first=Coventry |date=16 March 2006 |title=Lady Godiva riding again |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/lady-godiva-riding-again-3127893 |access-date=7 September 2024 |website=Coventry Live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Taylor |first=Baz |title=Lady Godiva: Back in the Saddle |date=13 November 2007 |type=Comedy |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780552/ |access-date=7 September 2024 |others=Phil Cornwell, James Fleet, Caroline Harker |publisher=Quantum Films Ltd., Koralis Pictures, Lady Godiva Productions}}</ref>