Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Lady Dorothy Mills (née Walpole) NPG x33162

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Dorothy grew up travelling, and later, when her husband became an author, she too turned her hand to travel writing. Ill health first took her to North Africa, and in 1923 she became the first western woman to reach Timbuktu, publishing The Road to Timbuktu the following year. Further African journeys and books followed illustrated with her own photographs, taken in Liberia, and then Senegal, as recorded in The Golden Land (1929). As well as travelling in Africa she went as far east as Iraq,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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