Walking Through Windows has provided an opportunity to explore some of the founders of girl power. Now it’s your opportunity to choose who you think has shown the same strengthen and determination to transform modern Britain.
Although the performances are nearly all sold out you can still take part in the debate.
We want to know who you think has contributed to changing the UK during the last century as part of the 100 year celebration of the Lady Chapel, the home of the 23 noble women captured within its stain glass windows.
The windows were installed in 1910 and feature pioneers in their field, women who have set the way for life today by smashing through the glass ceilings of their era. Here is just a glimpse of some of their lives:
• Agnes Jones became the first trained Nursing Superintendent of Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary, where she introduced the concept of trained nurses caring for sick paupers.
• Elizabeth Fry, a major driving force behind new legislation to make the treatment of prisoners more humane.
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era.
• Christina Rosetti wrote and published devotional writing and children's poetry. She is best known for her long poem Goblin Market and for the words the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter. She was a volunteer worker from at St. Mary Magdalene, a refuge for former prostitutes, which is believed to have inspired her poem Goblin Market.
Others include Grace Darling, Catherine Gladstone, Susanna Wesley, Josephine Butler, Kitty Wilkinson and Queen Victoria.
Remember that all these women were pushing on the boundaries of society at a time when women didn’t even have the right to vote. Their work has set the foundation for many of the benefits we have today such as health care, community and voluntary sector, social services and modern literature.
So who do you think is worthy of joining these women? We are looking for women who have inspired and transformed lives in the areas of social care, health, business, literature, art, politics, education, regeneration, voluntary sector, equality and other areas of social reform.
Join the debate