Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Elizabeth Margaretta Maria Gilbert NPG Ax9881

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer

Born in Oxford on 7 August 1826, Gilbert was one of eleven children of Ashurst Turner Gilbert, principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and afterwards bishop of Chichester and his wife Mary Anne. Gilbert received a good education despite being blinded by a bad attack of scarlett fever at the age of three. She established what became the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind. Gilbert proposed in a paper the establishment of a school for training teachers for blind pupils and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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