Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Unknown woman, formerly known as Charlotte Brontë NPG 1444

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

One of the Brontë sisters; a novelist whose books, including Jane Eyre, and Villette, extended the emotional range of English fiction. Acutely shy in person, Brontë fearlessly questioned social conventions in her novels, drawing on her experience as a teacher and governess. The daughter of an Anglican clergyman, she married her father's curate, the Rev. A.B. Nicholls, in 1854, but still faced criticism for the seemingly immoral qualities of her strong female characters. In writing her biography, Elizabeth Gaskell aimed to restore Brontë's respectability,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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