Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Annie Besant (née Wood) NPG x35192

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn

Besant controversially separated from her clergyman husband Frank Besant in 1873 as her beliefs became more secular and socially motivated. She met Charles Bradlaugh in 1875 who commissioned her to contribute to the National Reformer and together they founded the Freethought Publishing Company. In 1877 they were prosecuted for publishing Charles Knowlton's The Fruits of Philosophy on birth control. In 1888 she supported the Match Girls Strike, encouraging the first all women union to be formed. George Bernard Shaw introduced her to the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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