Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Flora (née Shaw), Lady Lugard NPG x6539

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Charles Beresford

Shaw was born in London into a large family for whom she helped to care. She began her career in journalism in 1886-7 writing for the Pall Mall Gazette and the Manchester Guardian. From 1893 she was colonial editor of The Times, making her the highest paid woman journalist of her day. Writing in The Times in 1897 she coined the name 'Nigeria' for the territories administered by the Royal Niger Company. Having resigned from The Times in 1900, two years later she married a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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