Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir (Thomas Henry) Hall Caine NPG 3435

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Harry Furniss

Leaving school at the age of fourteen, Caine became an architect's apprentice in Liverpool. An aspiring writer, he began to write regularly for local publications and corresponding with several eminent literary men, most notably Dante Gabriel Rossetti, for whom he came to act as secretary. He would go on to produce fifteen best-selling romantic novels, that also promoted his socialist beliefs. Inspired by his Manx heritage, The Manxman (1894) was an immediate hit and is probably his best-known book. This was followed by his... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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