Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Adelaide Neilson NPG Ax45752

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer, published by Hardwicke & Bogue

Adelaide Neilson, whose real name was Elizabeth Ann Brown, was born in Leeds, the daughter of an actress, and her childhood and early youth were passed in poverty and menial work. In 1865 she appeared in Margate as Julia in The Hunchback, a character with which her name was long associated. For the next few years she played at several London and provincial theatres in various parts, including Rosalind, Amy Robsart and Rebecca (in Ivanhoe) and Beatrice, Viola and Isabella (in Measure for Measure). In... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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