Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sydney Morgan (née Owenson), Lady Morgan NPG 1177

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Behnes

An Anglo-Irish liberal and successful novelist, Lady Morgan was a leading figure in the 'Irish cultural revival'. This was a diverse and politicised movement which began in the 1770s and aimed to recover (and sometimes invent) ancient Gaelic civilisation as a means of asserting a pre-British national identity. At first embracing both Catholics and Protestants, in its later stages it was chiefly the tool of the ruling Anglo-Irish who feared the loss of power that the 1801 Act of Union would bring. Lady Morgan's most... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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