Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dinah Maria Craik (née Mulock) NPG 2544a

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Amelia Robertson Hill (née Paton)

On the death of her parents, Dinah Craik turned to writing to earn a living. Her earliest work was in genres that could be quickly written and sold: poems and translations for Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, short moral tales for children and stories for monthlies such as Bentley's Miscellany and Fraser's Magazine. Her first novel, The Ogilvies (1849), drew attention for its emotional intensity. Her best-known novel, John Halifax, Gentleman (1856), is the archetypal story of a poor boy who makes good through honesty, initiative and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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