Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sarah Grand (Frances Elizabeth Bellenden McFall, née Clarke) NPG Ax39227

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons

Born in Ireland, Grand entered formal education when the family moved to Yorkshire when she was 14. She attended finishing school in Holland Park before entering an unhappy marriage to an army surgeon. In 1890 she left him and their son to pursue a writing career in London and anonymously published Ideala: a Study from Life at her own expense. It wasn't until she wrote The Heavenly Twins that she found success. Influenced by Josephine Butler's campaign against the Contagious Diseases Act, the novel... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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