Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant NPG P1700(3b)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn

The Scottish-born writer was a prolific novelist who worked primarily to support an extended household after the death of her husband, Frank, an artist. She produced a series of popular titles of which the four Chronicles of Carlingford (1862-65, 1876) are the best known. She also contributed a series of articles on autobiographies for Blackwoods magazine during the 1880s. Unlike Harriet Martineau, whose Autobiography she criticised, Oliphant considered her own professional success as secondary to her domestic responsibilities. As a consequence, her autobiography is... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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