Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Elizabeth Gaskell NPG Ax46282

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Alexander McGlashon (McGlashan)

Brought up in the Unitarian faith, a Christian religion that encouraged a belief in social duty and reform, Elizabeth Stevenson married William Gaskell, a Unitarian minister, in March 1832. They settled in Manchester. The city provided the inspiration for her first novel, Mary Barton, published in 1847. A lively and engaging personality, she wrote about challenging topics with an open mind, undeterred by the controversy they caused. The mother of four surviving daughters, she died suddenly of a heart attack in 1865, with the manuscript... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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