Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Ethel Edith Mannin NPG x18691

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Born into a working class family, she left school young and began working in an advertising agency which provided the material for her first critically successful novel Sounding Brass. Encouraged by her father, she was determined to make writing her life. As a pacifist and anti-monarchist she had strong political views, though she became more right wing as she grew older. She travelled extremely widely, marrying twice. She said: 'I had too much too soon; too much facile success, too much money, too much unassimilated... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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