Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Harriet Martineau NPG Ax51674

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Camille Silvy

Troubled by poverty and ill health in childhood, Martineau sent articles, stories and poems to magazines to earn money for her family. An anti-slavery campaigner, she travelled to America in 1834 but met hostility in the north and had to end her visit in 1835. She wrote Society in America (1837) to describe her experiences and How to Observe Morals and Manners (1838) to advise other travellers. One of few women to attempt a full-scale autobiography at this time, many contemporaries found her professional success... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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