Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Ann Yearsley NPG D14829

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry Richard Cook, published by I.W.H. Payne, after Sarah Shiells

Yearsley, the milkmaid poet known as 'Lactilla', was discovered in Bristol by the writer Hannah More. With the help of Elizabeth Montagu, More organised the publication of Yearsley's Poems, on Several Occasions (1785). The success of the volume led to a dispute between More and Yearsley over profits. Yearsley published Poems, on Various Subjects in 1787 and A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade in 1788. She turned to drama with Earl Goodwin: an Historical Play (1789) and to novel writing with... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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