Stamp Requests

So, as we all know, women are often the forgotten of history, and books by women are often considered less than those by men, and I thought doing a stamp set with writers women would be great, considering we're on a platform where writing is so important! and what is really important is to not put only white women from Europe and the States, so, if anyone has ideas, put them on the comments!

Russian folklore and fairy tales feature a number of characters known by every kid, so I thought it might be an interesting idea to have a set dedicated to them. These characters are also known in other Eastern European countries, although names and spelling may vary. I suggest a set of 6 stamps: Баба Яга (Baba Yaga) The main female antagonist. She flies around in a mortar, wields a pestle, and dwells deep in the forest in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga Иван-царевич (Ivan Tsarevich) Sort of "Prince Charming", saves damsels in distress and defeats evil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Tsarevich Кощей (Koschei) The main male antagonist. An evil sorcerer, who is kept immortal or deathless by a spell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koschei Змей Горыныч (Zmei Gorynich) Three-headed dragon with a thing for kidnapping women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zmei_(Russian) Василиса Прекрасная (Vasilisa the Beautiful) Not exactly a stock character, but probably the best-know female protagonist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilisa_the_Beautiful Жар-птица (Firebird) Pretty much a phoenix, whose feathers posses magical qualities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebird_(Slavic_folklore)

Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Mikhail Bulgakov, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol

These stories are known and loved by millions of people all around the world. They would make an amazing set with each of the stamps telling their own story: 1) Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp Luckily for us, Disney doesn't own this tale. Stamp with the Jinn (Genie) would be perfect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin 2) Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Baba_and_the_Forty_Thieves I guess everyone knows the plot, so I was thinking something with the treasures and the cave, but there other options as well 3) Sinbad the Sailor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad_the_Sailor There are many ideas and many creatures/monsters here, because Sinbad traveled near and far. I was thinking about something with the giant bird, but there's a lot to choose from. 4) Scheherazade The main storyteller, who outsmarted the murderous sultan and stayed alive by telling him stories every night withouth finishing them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheherazade 5) Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri-Banu https://arabiannights.fandom.com/wiki/The_Story_of_Prince_Ahmed_and_the_Fairy_Paribanou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peri Peri can be decribed as a female jinn. Integral to the Persian mythology, and also present in the tales from 1001 nights. I think another stamp with a female character is needed, and this one would be perfect. 6) Magic Carpet Not exclusive to Arabian Nights, but it's hard to imagine the set without it. Within the same tale, Prince Hussain, the eldest son of the Sultan of the Indies, travels to Bisnagar (Vijayanagara) in India and buys a magic teleporting tapestry, also known as a magic carpet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_carpet

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In addition to adaptations of Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty that have already been added to the Deutsche set, he is also famous for other works Bluebeard/Barbe bleue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Barbe_bleue The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots/Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puss_in_Boots https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Ma%C3%AEtre_chat_ou_le_Chat_bott%C3%A9 Diamonds and Toads/Les Fées A bad-tempered old widow had two daughters; her older daughter, Fanny was disagreeable and proud, but looked and behaved like her mother, and therefore was her favorite child; her younger daughter, Rose was sweet, courteous, and beautiful, but resembled her late father. Jealous and bitter, the widow and her favourite daughter abused and mistreated the younger girl. One day while drawing water from the well, an old woman asked the younger girl for a drink of water. The girl politely consented and after giving it, she found that the woman was a fairy, who had taken the guise of a crone to test the character of mortals. As the girl was so kind and compassionate toward her, the fairy blessed her with having either a jewel, a precious metal, or a pretty flower fall from her mouth whenever she spoke. Upon arriving home and explaining why she took so long to her mother, the widow was delighted at the sight of precious metals, jewels and flowers falling from the girl's lips, and desired that her favored eldest daughter, Fanny, should have the gift as well. Fanny protested, but the widow forcibly sent her to the well with instruction to act kindly toward an old beggar woman. Fanny set off but the fairy appeared as a fine princess, and requested that the girl draw her a drink from the well. The elder daughter spoke rudely to the fairy and insulted her. The fairy decreed that, as punishment for her despicable attitude, either a toad or a snake would fall from Fanny's mouth whenever she spoke. When Fanny arrived home, she told her story to her mother and disgusting toads and vipers fell from her mouth with each word. The widow, in a fury, drove her younger daughter out of the house. In the woods, she met a king's son, who fell in love with her and married her. In time, even the widow was sickened by her older daughter, and drove her out, and she died alone and miserable in the woods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamonds_and_Toads https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_F%C3%A9es Riquet with the Tuft/Riquet à la Houppe In the version by Charles Perrault, a fairy gives an ugly prince named Ricky the gift of conferring wit upon the one he loves the best. Prince Ricky of the Tuft comes to a kingdom with two princesses. The elder one is beautiful but unintelligent and the younger one is intelligent but ugly. The elder princess is saddened that her ugly but smart sister receives more attention than her. One day as the elder princess was going for a walk in the forest to ease her sorrow, she is approached by Ricky who had fallen in love with her after seeing portraits of her that circulated. Ricky asks how a person so beautiful as she can be so sad, to which she responds that she is sad because she is beautiful but lacks intelligence. Ricky then bestows the gift of intelligence on the elder princess for a promise of marriage. A year later, Ricky comes to marry her. She refuses on grounds that he cannot hold her to a promise made before she gained her wisdom. The princess then tells him that she was gifted at birth with the power to transform her lover into a beautiful person by the same fairy who helped him. The princess thinks of all the Prince's good qualities and at once the prince is transformed. The king has his daughter married to the prince who has already made preparations for the wedding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riquet_with_the_Tuft https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riquet_%C3%A0_la_houppe Hop-o'-My-Thumb, also known as Little Thumbling/Le petit Poucet Hop-o'-My-Thumb is the youngest of seven children in a poor woodcutter's family. His greater wisdom compensates for his smallness of size. When the children are abandoned by their parents, he finds a variety of means to save his life and the lives of his brothers. After being threatened and pursued by an ogre, Poucet steals his magic seven-league boots while the monster is sleeping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop-o%27-My-Thumb https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Petit_Poucet Donkeyskin/Peau d'Âne A relationship between two families is being described so on one side we have the desperate princess’s father who wants to marry his daughter, but he is stopped by a fairy that helps the girl escape. On the other side, we have a king and a queen who would sacrifice everything in order to keep their son happy. The moral of the fairytale is that we shouldn’t give up on true love and that we should fight for it and resist all temptations. The prince was truly in love with a beautiful princess and thanks to his persistence he married the girl with the emerald ring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkeyskin https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peau_d%27%C3%82ne Another literature offer for France https://slowly.canny.io/stamp-requests/p/france-works-of-jules-verne-set

A set with everyone's favourite characters from everyone's favourite book . Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland ) is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. Here are just a few facts about it: One of the best-known works of Victorian literature, its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had huge influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. The book has never been out of print and has been translated into 174 languages. Its legacy covers adaptations for screen, radio, art, ballet, opera, musicals, theme parks, board games and video games Luckily for us, both books, Alice in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass are in the public domain and can be used for Slowly stamps. Important #1 : I do not take credit for this idea, as it originally belongs to Савва Р. and was first suggested here . This request is in English with a couple of pictures for your viewing pleasure - hopefully it can get some support. Important #2 : I am suggesting this as a global set, since the book is a true classic loved all around the world. However, if someone feels that this should be a UK-only set, feel free to drop a comment. On the left you will see Sir John Tenniel’s Classic Illustrations and on the right, stamp mock-ups based on the Soviet animation film, which you can watch with English subtitles here . List of characters with individual links. Alice holding the potion that says "Drink Me" The White Rabbit The Cheshire Cat The Caterpillar The Hatter The Queen of Hearts

Would love a stamp set with the following 6 of the most popular Romanian fairy tales: Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples (Prâslea cel voinic și merele de aur) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A2slea_the_Brave_and_the_Golden_Apples The Goat and Her Three Kids (Capra cu trei iezi) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goat_and_Her_Three_Kids Harap Alb (Povestea lui Harap-Alb) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harap_Alb The Purse with Coppers Two (Punguța cu doi bani) https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pungu%C8%9Ba_cu_doi_bani The Old Man's Daughter and the Old Woman's Daughter (Fata babei și fata moșneagului) https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_babei_%C8%99i_fata_mo%C8%99neagului The Fairy Aurora (Zâna Zorilor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fairy_Aurora These are all official translations of the titles. Some of these fairy tales have real stamps that might inspire the creator of the stamps. Thank you!

A picture of a bottle floating on a moonlit tide with a note inside because that’s the first image that came into my mind after I joined: of a message in a bottle, bobbing on rippling waves and blown by gentle winds to an unknown shore. Perhaps in a far-off land. Perhaps somewhere closer. But exciting either way!

ShahNameh is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,000 "distichs" or couplets (two-line verses),[2] the Shahnameh is one of the world's longest epic poems. It tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of the Persian Empire from the creation of the world until the Muslim conquest in the seventh century. Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and the greater region influenced by Persian culture such as Armenia, Dagestan, Georgia, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan celebrate this national epic.[3] The work is of central importance in Persian culture and Persian language, regarded as a literary masterpiece, and definitive of the ethno-national cultural identity of Iran.[4] It is also important to the contemporary adherents of Zoroastrianism, in that it traces the historical links between the beginnings of the religion and the death of the last Sasanian emperor, which brought an end to the Zoroastrian influence in Iran. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157985.Shahnameh https://www.amazon.com/Shahnameh-Persian-Book-Kings/dp/0143104934