Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Frank Raymond Leavis NPG 5422

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Robert Sargent Austin

Literary critic, editor and teacher; F.R. Leavis studied English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and later became a fellow of Downing College; his influential works of criticism include Revaluation (1936) and The Great Tradition (1948). With his wife, Q.D. Leavis, he helped to launch the periodical Scrutiny in 1932. During the First World War he served with the Friends' Ambulance Unit as a stretcher-bearer on the western front, an experience which left him deeply troubled by insomnia.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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