Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Shelagh Delaney NPG x25201

© estate of Daniel Farson / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Daniel Farson

Farson photographed the young playwright outside her house in Salford a year after her debut A Taste of Honey (1958) had premiered at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East and during its transfer to the West End. The film (1961), which Delaney scripted with Tony Richardson, starring Rita Tushingham, won four Baftas. Her second play The Lion in Love, which also took inspiration from her working class upbringing, was staged at the Royal Court in 1960. Delaney's defiance of social and sexual convention and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.