Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Jane Octavia Brookfield (née Elton) NPG x139793

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Oscar Gustav Rejlander

Jane Elton married William Henry Brookfield, curate of St James's, Piccadilly, in 1841. She maintained an influential literary salon, which included her husband's college friend Alfred Tennyson. Jane Brookfield is chiefly remembered for her association with her husband's acquaintance William Makepeace Thackeray. The two met in 1842, and were close friends for several years. They do not appear to have had an affair, but Thackeray was warned away by Jane's cousin Henry Hallam and the relationship ended with an argument between... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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