Candida Lycett Green; Paul Betjeman; Sir John Betjeman; Penelope (née Chetwode), Lady Betjeman Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Candida Lycett Green; Paul Betjeman; Sir John Betjeman; Penelope (née Chetwode), Lady Betjeman NPG x78424
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Bassano Ltd
Born in London of Dutch origin, Betjeman was a friend of W.H. Auden and Louis MacNeice at Oxford. He began writing for the Architectural Review in 1931. At the Architectural Press he proposed the Shell Guides and became the series editor. As an early champion of Victorian architecture, Betjeman exercised, as he put it, his own 'topographical predeliction for suburbs and gaslights and Pont Street and Gothic Revival churches and mineral railways, provincial towns and garden cities'. His published poetry includes A Few... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










