Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

H.E. Bates with wife Madge, his daughter Ann and his two grandsons Stephen and Jeremy NPG x88310

© Mark Gerson / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Mark Gerson

Bates's first novel, The Two Sisters, was published in 1926 and in the same year he began to publish short stories in the New Statesman and the Manchester Guardian.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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