Mary Frances Lucas Keene Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mary Frances Lucas Keene NPG x170767

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Keene graduated from the School of Medicine for Women in London in 1911, returning as a teacher of anatomy in 1914 and forming a lifelong attachment to the institution. Her most celebrated research concerned the nervous system of the human fetus but she is equally remembered for campaigning on behalf of the School of Medicine throughout her life. During the difficult years of World War II, she kept staff and student morale up and oversaw student evacuations from London to Aberdeen. After the anatomy department... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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