Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Samuel Butler NPG x19698

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Alfred Emery Cathie

The late nineteenth-century saw the emergence of autobiographical forms that challenged conventions. One of the most significant being Samuel Butler's fictionalised autobiography The Way of All Flesh(1902), an incredibly potent satire of nineteenth-century family values. Butler turned to Darwin's evolutionary theory to interpret his fictional younger self, Ernest Pontifex, and the conflict between father and son. Described as 'one of the great time-bombs of literature', the book remained unpublished for twenty years for fear it would outrage Bulter's family and the Victorian reading public.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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