Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edna O'Brien NPG x88222

© Mark Gerson / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Mark Gerson

Novelist, short-story writer and playwright, O'Brien was born in Tuamgraney, County Clare and moved to London in 1959. Based on her work as a reader for Hutchinson, she was commissioned to write a novel. The Country Girls (1960) was followed by The Lonely Girl (1962, reprinted as The Girl with the Green Eyes) and Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964). The novels, feted for illuminating sexual and social matters, were banned in Ireland. Later works include The High Road (1988) and House of Splendid Isolation... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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